totalitarianism

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totalitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural totalitarianisms)

A system of government in which the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control, for example, a dictatorship.

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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

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. Stephen Harper

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. Eric Hoffer

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can. José Saramago

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. Barbara Amiel

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