Totalitarian Control Quotes

#1. I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.

B.F. Skinner

#2. As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

Adam Smith

#3. But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

Adam Zagajewski

#4. To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

George Orwell

#5. Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

A.E. Samaan

#6. Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.

Andy Goldsworthy

#7. When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.

John Bytheway

#8. A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#10. A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

Michael Polanyi

#11. It used to be you did TV or you did film. Now it's like a media blitz.

Stephen Dorff

#12. 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.

Christopher Hitchens

#13. As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.

David Blaine

#14. Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#15. What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother.

James M. Fallows

#16. Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair ... Change my name, just see what happens.

Larry David