Totalitarianism Quotes

“Totalitarianism's central premise is that the state is the ultimate end and the individual is only a means to that end.”

“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”

“We have been silent witnesses to the slow-motion march toward corporate totalitarianism.”

“Stalinism is a barbarous system... but it has achieved great things.”

“By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian.”

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”

“The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the democratic and the totalitarian.”

“We're not allowed to ask questions. That's the first sign of a totalitarian society.”

“Big Brother is watching you.”

“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.”

“The combination of the ideologically-driven ruler and the terrorist-bureaucratic state has proved to be the most lethal form of governance ever devised.”

“Islamism is a totalitarian ideology that seeks to impose its version of Islam on society.”

“Fear is the main instrument of a totalitarian state.”

“Twelve years of a totalitarian regime have stripped the German people of the ability to think.”

“I would say that the first thing that is violated in a totalitarian society is the right to imagination.”

“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”

“When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already.'”

“He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse.”

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”

“In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation.”