Totalitaire Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't satisfying to be the one to leave. But it was a lot better than being the one who was left. — Erin McCarthy

Nationalism ... is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you. — Daniel Fried

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama. — David Oyelowo

I wondered if I could get him to stop saying it if I slapped him a few times. But such logical and rewarding actions are discouraged in the workplace, even when they make perfect sense, — Jeff Lindsay

The central attitudes driving Mr. Right are:
You should be in awe of my intelligence and should look up to me intellectually. I know better than you do, even about what's good for you.
Your opinions aren't worth listening to carefully or taking seriously.
The fact that you sometimes disagree with me shows how sloppy your thinking is.
If you would just accept that I know what's right, our relationship would go much better. Your own life would go better, too.
When you disagree with me about something, no matter how respectfully or meekly, that's mistreatment of me.
If I put you down for long enough, some day you'll see. — Lundy Bancroft

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear. — Shunryu Suzuki

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels. — Holly Black

Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality. — Andrei Tarkovsky

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. — Christopher Hitchens

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it. — Brenton Thwaites

Lying is the royal road to chaos. As — Sam Harris

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action. — William Blum