187 Quotes About Totalitarianism

Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.

That’s what’s new. There used to be the option of opting out. But now that’s over. Completion is the end. We’re closing the circle around everyone—it’s a totalitarian nightmare.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. There is always a new tyrant waiting to take over from the old - generally not quite so bad, but still a tyrant. Consequently two viewpoints are always tenable. The one, how can you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature? They appeal to different individuals, and they probably show a tendency to alternate in point of time.

Bo partia znaczyła więcej niż Bóg, Bóg nie istniał. A nawet jeśli istniał, to był wszechmocny tylko w teorii, a patia była wszechmocna w praktyce. Bóg nie potrafił zniszczyć partii, ale partia potrafiła zniszczyć Boga.

the believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity.

Cierpieć w stopniu znikomym to jakby nie cierpieć wcale, to właściwie poniekąd cieszyć się ze śmierci – zaleca się zatem kilka lat przymusowego odosobnienia, by osobnik reakcyjny mógł w spokoju przemyśleć swoją postawę.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

Only the unlimited accumulation of power could bring about the unlimited accumulation of capital.