187 Quotes About Totalitarianism

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Tenemos el prejuicio de que las grandes catástrofes de los pueblos sólo son posibles en medio de un apocalíptico desorden. En nuestro tiempo las cosas suceden de una manera mucho más sencilla, con una simplicidad y una facilidad aterradora.

Terror is a powerful means of policy and one would have to be a hypocrite not to understand this.

A Stalin functionary admitted, "Innocent people were arrested: naturally - otherwise no one would be frightened. If people, he said, were arrested only for specific misdemeanours, all the others would feel safe and so become ripe for treason.

love at first sightis only possibleif the governmenthasn't firsttaken your eyes

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

What drove such people to their sinister occupations? Spite? Certainly, but also the desire for order. Because the desire for order tries to transform the human world into an inorganic reign in which everything goes well, everything functions as a subject of an impersonal will. The desire for order is at the same time a desire for death, because life is a perpetual violation of order. Or, inversely, the desire for order is a virtuous pretext by which man's hatred for man justifies its crimes.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.

The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,But I am no wolf by blood.