Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
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For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
quote by Noam Chomsky
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0215 Name the Devil and...
How long?
how long before the measures
put in place by the state
'for our protection'
become the apparatus
of a repressive and
totalitarian state?
'Oh it can't happen here, we're a free country'...
but children never know the experience of
their parents' lost inner freedoms of the mind.
How long?
Start counting
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It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.
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The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
quote by Arthur Henderson
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To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
quote by Norman Thomas
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Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
quote by Michael Johns
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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.
quote by Michael Pollan
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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
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We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
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There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.
quote by Jeane Kirkpatrick
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A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
quote by Friedrich August von Hayek
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From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
George Orwell in The Prevention of Literature (1946)
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Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success.
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Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
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Our focus needs to be on freeing dissidents and continuing to support the opposition movement within Cuba - not rewarding Castro and subsidizing and strengthening his totalitarian regime.
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It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
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