One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.
Hannah ArendtStichwörter: politics totalitarianism politics-language elites
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
Peter WattsStichwörter: power control totalitarianism marketing memes perception-of-reality
If the old saying is true, that what one generation learns in school is the philosophy of the next, then the philosophy of the next generation will be totalitarianism.
John WhiteheadStichwörter: school totalitarianism
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
Noam ChomskyStichwörter: freedom society totalitarianism fascism corporations stalinism
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: humor power tyranny totalitarianism
The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.
William S. BurroughsStichwörter: totalitarianism 1984 orwell elite-program
The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: totalitarianism
At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.
Herta MüllerStichwörter: fear freedom dictatorship totalitarianism
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.
George OrwellStichwörter: future injustice totalitarianism
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
Robert A. HeinleinStichwörter: totalitarianism truism
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