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What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

Steve Allen

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

We are grateful to him for the tireless and difficult work he carried out unstintingly against all forms of totalitarianism, violence, oppression and moral degradation, all in the name of the values of the Catholic Church, which are the supreme values of human dignity and solidarity.

Silvio Berlusconi

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

Vladimir Putin

It's fighting the totalitarianism of the grid layout.

Paul Cienfuegos

If you grasp what totalitarianism is, you would never talk about the rights of the father. In that kind of society, he can only watch his son die. You say he needs a father; he needs a life first.

Leonard Peikoff

These attempts by the Russian state and religious leaders to suppress the right to protest are a throwback to the bad old days of czarist and communist totalitarianism. No amount of threats and intimidation by the mayor of Moscow, the Chief Mufti or the Chief Rabbi will halt the gay freedom struggle in Russia.

Peter Tatchell

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century.

Silvio Berlusconi