Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “There is little to be feared from the standard picture of a totalitarian society in which 'cogs,' who are watched by Big Brother or his equivalent, carry out orders emanating from the top. Such a society would collapse in inefficiency. What is infinitely more fearsome is the capacity of a dictatorship to use the principle of competition to organize terror and murder.” ~ Ronald Wintrobe Source: The Political Economy of Dictatorship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), p. 328.