totalitarianism quotes

• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ( Socrates) [beauty/tyranny]
• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. (Hannah Arendt) [politics/tyranny]
• Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. (Hannah Arendt) [tyranny/content/state/role]
• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. (Hannah Arendt) [elite/tyranny]
• Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart. (Jeremy Bentham) [tyranny/]
• Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. (Edmund Burke) [bad/form/tyranny]
• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. (Edmund Burke) [tyranny/tyranny]
• Impenetrable in their dissimulation, cruel in their vengeance, tenacious in their purposes, unscrupulous as to their methods, animated by profound and hidden hatred for the tyranny of man -- it is as though there exists among them an ever-present conspiracy toward domination, a sort of alliance like that subsisting among the priests of every country. (Denis Diderot) [hatred/tyranny]
• Where the law ends tyranny begins. (Henry Fielding) [right/tyranny]
• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. (William Hazlitt) [pride/human/tyranny/order]
• I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. (Thomas Jefferson) [god/form/tyranny/mind]
• Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. (Thomas Jefferson) [people/tyranny/soul & body/mind]
• There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. (Samuel Johnson) [tyranny]
• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. (Norman Mailer) [democracy/tyranny/borders]
• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. (Henry Miller) [disease/tyranny/unique]
• How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [type/being/tyranny/danger]
• Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. (Charles Peguy) [tyranny]
• Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ( Plato) [democracy/form/tyranny/slavery]
• Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. (Bertrand Russell) [exercise/tyranny]
• Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. (George Bernard Shaw) [tyranny]
• Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. ( Socrates) [beauty/tyranny]
• To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. (Simone Weil) [/tyranny]
• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. (Walt Whitman) [day/tyranny/people/spirit]
• There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People. (Oscar Wilde) [tyranny/soul & body/tyranny/tyranny]
• Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. (Oscar Wilde) [tyranny]
• The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. (Oscar Wilde) [form/tyranny/tyranny/tyranny]
• Political correctness is tyranny with a happy face. (Charlton Heston) [tyranny/face]

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