Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.
You can't allow people freedom and then change your mind when the things don't go your way.
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.