Abdolkarim Soroush
Abdolkarim Soroush

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis

The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have collective ideas that involve the surrender of the individual to the group - otherwise, you get totalitarianism or, even worse, religion.

Ahmed Chalabi
Ahmed Chalabi

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

Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei

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.

Aleksandr Lebed
Aleksandr Lebed

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
Aleksandr Lebed

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.

Alexander Haig
Alexander Haig

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Alexis Bledel
Alexis Bledel

'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.

Andrew Vachss
Andrew Vachss

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor

The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.