Totalitarianism quotes

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

‚1984‘ is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.