Lee Hyeon-seo Quotes

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

Even the most repressive regimes seek to maintain the fiction that they have the people’s interest at heart.

The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids - that the State stands above all men and their individual aspirations.

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

Communism is fascism with a human face.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

'Hunger Games' is a tried-and-true tale about a totalitarian society. It's more similar to China than America, but it's also similar to Nazi Germany and anywhere where the populace gets semi-brainwashed into serving the agenda of a very few.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

I don't want to live in a militarised country behind an iron curtain. It's boring. Been there and seen the movie. I've done that.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

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

If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one wants to go back to that.

Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.

Benito Mussolini created the word 'fascism.' He defined it as 'the merging of the state and the corporation.' He also said a more accurate word would be 'corporatism.' This was the definition in Webster's up until 1987 when a corporation bought Webster's and changed it to exclude any mention of corporations.