“I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather totalitarian, doesn't it?”
Richard Thompson
“A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death”
Robert Maynard Hutchins
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
Isabel Paterson
“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
“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
“The power of the executive to cast a man into prison, ... without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”
Winston Churchill
