It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency.

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.