#totalitarian

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#doctrines #ideas #perfection #totalitarian

A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#away #blowing #blown #blown away #breeze

It will be a war of national liberation. We believe the people reject totalitarianism. ↗

— Ahmed Chalabi

#liberation #national #people #reject #totalitarianism

It is not true that virtually all news in a totalitarian state is false. ↗

— Konrad Zuse

#news #state #totalitarian #totalitarian state #true

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#art #art world #calls #chinese #create

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#am #basic #belief #brings #democracy

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state. ↗

— John le Carre

#big difference #difference #state #totalitarian #totalitarian state

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. ↗

— John le Carre

#happen #held #impunity #killed #states

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go to sleep under totalitarian rule and wake up in a democracy, it makes me laugh. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#average #build #democracies #democracy #democratic

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#still-life-with-woodpecker #tom-robbins #totalitarianism #beauty