Sentence examples for think totalitarian from inspiring English sources

It is a great mistake to think totalitarian regimes attack only their foes.

In an age when Mao posters adorned college dorms and Donald Barthelme ruled the nouvelle vague of fiction, the book made more sense than you might think; crediting a totalitarian icon with a thoroughly hip American mentality was wishful thinking of a merciful sort during the grim dénouement of our intervention in Vietnam.

The editor, Richard Smith, justifies this move primarily on ethical grounds, arguing1 that "a court with an unidentified judge makes us think immediately of totalitarian states and the world of Franz Kafka".

So it is worrying that a tech entrepreneur thinks that a totalitarian, interventionist monolith is a role model.

Newspeak may have been a plausible invention in 1948, when totalitarian thought control still seemed an imminent possibility.

Yet the abstraction that Camus bravely defended is a humane one; Adam characterizes it as the opposition to "totalitarian thought," to the readiness of political idealists to "look past the humanity of the kulaks or the pieds noirs or whoever is the necessary victim of the day," to the recognition that "all systems of ideal government were wrong, all atrocities equally atrocious".

And I think the government was so totalitarian they even wanted to be the author of the work".

In the dystopian tale, based on a novella by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521, a street sweeper, dares to defy his totalitarian rulers and think for himself.

"This is a regime that is extremely close to totalitarian, so I think an infusion of aid around the country would have a big political effect".

People went into a sort of internal exile, or a state of internal resistance … I don't say that he was a totalitarian, but I think he had an absolutist cast of mind".

While brutal regimes like the Khmer Rouge or the Taliban recognize the threat that cultural identity and expression pose to their totalitarian control -- think of the fate of the Bamiyan Buddhas or of the libraries in Timbuktu -- the United States rarely prioritizes culture in post-conflict situations.