Totalitarianism

The gates of heaven

The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might. G. Edward Griffin

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon. Eugene … Read more

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power. Eric Hoffer

There is a totalitarian

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

Once you admit that

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity Friedrich August von Hayek

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation,

[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by the most power-hungry and unscrupulous. Friedrich August von Hayek

The real division in

The real division in the world today is not between socialism and capitalism, it’s between freedom and totalitarianism. Frank Underhill

Democracy is the opposite

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. Frank Lloyd Wright

The presumption that the

The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There’s not equality in a family; there never is. And yet for that reason, the family is condemned as patriarchal. The goal of this sort of legislation is about the destruction of the traditional family, … Read more

For the Left, tolerance

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price. Dennis Prager