Totalist Quotes

Russians would be, or are, willing to agree to a partition of the world into ‘orbits' or ‘spheres of influence,' along familiar lines of power politics. Those who hold this hope have been confusing Stalin with Hitler. Hitler was for the partition of the world, and tried to sell that idea to the British. But Stalin is a Bolshevist-that is, a totalist. (Dorothy Thompson)
Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual. View quote
Martin Amis