“There are many who have lost faith in this early American ideal and believe in a form of socialistic, totalitarian rule, a sort of big brother deity to run our lives for us. They no longer believe that free men can successfully manage their own affairs. Their thesis is that a handful of men, centere…”— Douglas Macarthur, amazon.com
“When people are unanimously on one side, that tells me not that they’ve all figured out the truth but that they are in sort of a totalitarian place, that they are in a one-party state where they are not allowed to have dissenting views.”— Peter Thiel, foxbusiness.com
“Literature becomes the living memory of a nation…woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, books.google.com
“I try not to think too much, like other things now, thought must be rationed.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“The aggressiveness of totalitarianism springs only for ideological reasons: to make the world consistent, to prove that its respective supersense has been right.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com