Quotes About Totalitarian Regimes

#1. More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

John Ringo

#2. There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#3. The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Simone Weil

#4. When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Benazir Bhutto

#5. No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#6. Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Russell Smith

#7. The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

Carl Joachim Friedrich

#8. i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...

Hakim Bey

#9. Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Rupert Murdoch

#10. We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

Camille Paglia

#11. Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.

Hannah Arendt

#12. The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#13. I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.

Sue Townsend

#14. If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

Leon Krier

#15. The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Harry S. Truman

#16. Liberals and international diplomats (a distinction without a difference) have notorious difficulty understanding how to deal with totalitarian regimes.

Mona Charen

#17. You and me, we're like magnets from here on out.

Jessica R. Patch

#18. Never shake hands with a scorpion.

Beau Johnston

#19. Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

Chinua Achebe

#20. Women like us have to learn to give to those who appreciate it instead of to those who expect it.

Wendy Wasserstein

#21. Sometimes my songs wander off a bit and are not always coherent.

Adele

#22. The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.

J.G. Ballard

#23. It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

Svetlana Alliluyeva

#24. I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin

#25. I am no apologist for Fidel's [Castro] regime. It is, after all, a totalitarian regime. So I would like to see that change.

John Gimlette

#26. These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#27. Your name?" I repeated, hoping it was my imagination that my voice faltered.
"Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me

Becca Fitzpatrick

#28. Painting the enemy as being as inhuman as possible is a great way to win a war.

Rae Carson

#29. Access to pool areas at all onsite resorts

Mary DeSilva

#30. For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#31. I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Jerzy Kosinski

#32. Suffer" he commanded seductively. "With me ... or because of me.

Donna Lynn Hope