Quotes on Totalitarian Regimes

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.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.