“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”
Hannah Arendt
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
Isabel Paterson
“A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death”
Robert Maynard Hutchins
“After an American has been in a totalitarian country for several months, he is greatly relieved when he reaches home. He feels that bonds have been released and that he is free. He can speak above a whisper, and he walks relaxed and unguarded as though he were no longer being followed. After a recent trip I said to a neighbor, "It's wonderful to be back in a nation where even a riot may be tolerated."”
William Orville Douglas
“Terrorists and totalitarian radicals are lionized as fighters for social justice. Israelis and Americans are condemned as Nazis."”
David Horowitz
“Beheading videos [are] not aimed at people in totalitarian regimes who can't do anything about it.”
Yael Shahar
“It took a terrible succession of wars and revolutions, namely the total wars and the totalitarian revolutions of the last century, to bring back a European ideal.”
Jorge Sampaio
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