“Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for having done something. They imprisoned and executed them to keep them from doing something. They imprisoned all those POW's, of course, not for treason to the motherland, because it was absolutely clear ev…”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, archive.org
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the state.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“Totalitarian terror achieved its most terrible triumph when it succeeded in cutting the moral person off from the individualist escape. When a man is faced with the alternative of betraying and thus murdering his friends or of sending his wife and children to their death; how is he to decide? The al…”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“The network is still controlled centrally by an authority, but it functions in a decentralized way.”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com
“Before he’d quit doing interviews, the previous fall, he’d taken to dropping the word totalitarian. Younger interviewers, to whom the word meant total surveillance, total mind control, gray armies in parade with medium-range missiles, had understood him to be saying something unfair about the Intern…”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com