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Totalitarianism Quotes

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."

"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. "

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

"The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

"Big Brother is watching you."

"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?"

"The fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law."

"The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any."

"The more cynical reason people give in to totalitarianism is that they can't stand the boredom of total liberty."

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

"It was a pleasure to burn"

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

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