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  • Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

  • 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.

    War   Details   Loathing  
  • The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

  • 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.

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

    War   Wings   Faults  
  • But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

  • [T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than is the theory of production and distribution of a given output produced under the conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire.

    "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Preface to the German Edition, February, 1936.
  • Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

    "On Propaganda". WBAI Interview, chomsky.info. January 1992.
  • I think that the next two generations of Americans will be grappling with the very real specter of finding themselves living in a new and bizarre kind of digital totalitarian state - one that looks and feels democratic on the surface, but has a fierce undercurrent of fear and technologically enforced fascism any time you step out of line. I really hope this isn't the case, but it looks really bad right now, doesn't it?

    Real   Thinking   Two  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • In the West, you don't get in any trouble if you tell the truth, but you still can't do it. Not only can't you tell the truth, you can't think the truth. It's just so deeply embedded, deeply instilled, that without any meaningful coercion it comes out the same way it does in a totalitarian state.

    Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. May 1, 2004.
  • 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.

  • The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

    Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”
  • Of course, we knew that the official reports were sketchy, if not falsified. But, in terms of information theory, this is precisely where the problem lay: How were we to reconstruct reality from incomplete or false reports? It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. On the contrary, most news is completely correct, albeit tendentiously slanded; it is just that certain information is suppressed. One can adjust for the political slanting of the news, but there is virtually no way to fill in the omissions.

    "The Computer - My Life".
  • Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic totalitarian state in Gaza, with no individual liberty, and no freedom of speech or press.

  • The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to be free men. There is no problem, and there are no values, until men want to do both. If an anarchist wants only freedom, whatever the cost, he will prefer the jungle of man at war with man. And if a tyrant wants only social order, he will create the totalitarian state.

    War   Animal   Men  
    Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

    Leader   Faces   States  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • If small business goes, big business does not have any future except to become the economic arm of a totalitarian state.

  • The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

  • Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.

    Military   War   Enemy  
  • Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

    Taxation   Levels   Pay  
  • I believe strongly that most people in this country U.S. don't want a totalitarian state...And when conservatives say, "Get the government out of my backyard," the reality is, you can't say that and put somebody in the White House who's gonna be in your business.

    "Whoopi Goldberg Is the Fashion Week Muse We Need". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 12, 2016.
  • 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.

  • A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

    Mistake   Past   Order  
    George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state... a steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression on one's mind and often misled it.

    Lying   Taken   Years  
    William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.423, RosettaBooks
  • Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

    Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”
  • It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false.

    Konrad Zuse (2013). “The Computer - My Life”, p.55, Springer Science & Business Media
  • I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it has very effectively stood up to Donald Trump who has obvious fascist tendencies and his - who's a temptation like all authoritarian figures to try to crush the media or make it obey him. As that - the media has, in fact, stood up to him and has refused to bow out or cower.

    Crush   Media   America  
    Source: www.npr.org
  • Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals who compose it, which means that their craving for devotion and self-sacrifice is satisfied in a democratic society on a nobler level, and with a finer recognition of the value of individual personality than is true of a national purpose of a totalitarian state under a dictator.

    Mean   Sacrifice   Self  
    Attributed to Ordway Tead in "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life", p. 138, 1950.
  • A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a remarkably wide range of examples and is distinguished by the relevance of its insights and by the precision and clarity of their exposition. It is an absorbing read that deserves to become a modern classic of political thinking.

  • People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed the beast that puts us in shackles of our own creation. They are dependent on us. We think of revolutions as gunfire in the streets. But a soft and creeping tyranny can be beaten with a soft and creeping revolution. Think about it. Think about all the ways the totalitarian state is dependent on your personal actions. Think about what you do every day to help feed this beast and then stop doing that!

    YouTube Chanel "PJ Media "/ "Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Dependence Day", www.youtube.com. July 3, 2013.
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