187 Quotes About Totalitarianism

It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.

The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.

I love my country, not my government.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

Law without reason is criminal.

Freedom of expression is a basic expression of freedom.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

Everything not forbidden is compulsory

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.