Totalitarian Control Quotes

“Cult (totalistic type): a group or movement exhibiting a great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing and employing unethically manipulative techniques of persuasion and control (e.g., isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressure, information management, suspension of individuality or critical judgement, promotion of total dependency on the group and fear of leaving it, etc) designed to advance the goals of the group's leaders, to the actual or possible detriment of members, their families, or the community.”
― Louis Jolyon West

“Totalitarian ideology is able to blackmail man through his inner cowardice It threatens him into surrendering his innermost convictions in exchange for glamour and acceptance...”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing

“What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother.”
― James Fallows

“Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.”
― A.E. Samaan

“In a moderately well-off society, the people fear chaos more than they fear dictatorship.”
― Koonchung Chan, The Fat Years