A person advocating a totalitarian system of government.
‘most totalitarians seem afraid of the spirit of science’
‘Shakespeare thus places himself between utopian totalitarians and libertarian fundamentalists.’
‘We are radicals - not extremists and totalitarians.’
‘Twentieth-century totalitarians - fascists and communists - felt constrained to bow toward popular sovereignty with plebiscitary forms.’
‘‘A vote for Respect is a vote for totalitarians in an unconvincing left wing costume,’ he declared, before giving lukewarm support to the Liberal Democrats, who ‘took a clear anti-war line’.’
‘And the admiration and support that Western Leftists regularly displayed for Communism before the Soviet implosion shows that Leftists in democratic countries share the same underlying values as the Leftist totalitarians.’
‘While I agree that the National Socialist party did have true socialist elements I must stress that I think the great gulf between any democratic party or politician and totalitarians should always be acknowledged.’
‘Like all totalitarians I was a utopian - I knew that things would get better if we could only get rid of certain people.’
‘The totalitarians spoke a populist language in countries like the United States, but where they achieved power every vestige of democracy was wiped out.’
‘The right-wing totalitarians had been ill-intentioned, at least from the point of view of anyone not included in the master race, defined in more than one way along the Axis.’
‘When soft totalitarians get into a bureaucracy or university or media, they go for power over the announced aim of their institution.’
‘The problem of rehabilitating former totalitarians isn't confined to Western Europe.’
‘The old rationale for bearing with mere authoritarians has crumbled away with the passing of the expansionist Marxist-Leninist totalitarians.’
‘The last thing the Government should be doing is to give this sort of helping hand to those besuited theocratic totalitarians who have learnt that there are some things you think and others you say.’
‘Most everyone besides committed totalitarians believe such limits are appropriate and they differ mainly on what the limits should be.’
‘They are totalitarians in the strictest meaning of the word.’
‘Our enemies are the totalitarians who plunged Afghanistan into the Stone Age and who yearn to do the same to America.’