“ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
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“ More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. ”
- Dennis Prager- Copy
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“ A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
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“ I suppose the mindset for a band show is more that you overpower the audience. That sounds rather totalitarian, doesn't it? ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
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“ Many now believe that with the rise of the totalitarian State the world has entered upon a new era of barbarism. ”
- Albert J. Nock- Copy
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“ We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there. ”
- Judd Gregg- Copy
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“ From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a totalitarian state. It was a country where people were murdered and tortured. So I'm looking at this through the eyes of the political prisoner in Baghdad, and from this point of view I'm very grateful to those who opened the gates of the prison and who stopped the killing and the torture. ”
- Adam Michnik- Copy
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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. ”
- Norman Thomas- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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