To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
George OrwellIn this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
George OrwellTotalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.
George Orwell