Borrowed Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Arendt, as we have seen, is committed to understanding totalitarianism in its complete novelty, as an unprecedented phenomenon. It is unprecedented in the strict…

— Steve Buckler

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and…

— Hannah Arendt

“We humans almost universally have a false self-image of our species. We think that monstrous, wicked policies must be, can only be, conceived and…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“as eminent political theorist Hannah Arendt saw back in 1951: “Would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and…

— Brooke Gladstone

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

— Albert Camus

“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first, of those…

— Robert A. Nisbet

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

— Tom Robbins

“It is essential to realise, that, while we make efforts to live the Christian life today, the world which have formed in our spoiled…

— Anonymous

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of…

— Jean Francois Revel

Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on…

— Jacques Ellul