Momentum Quote by Hannah Arendt

“Totalitarian propaganda perfects the techniques of mass propaganda, but it neither invents them nor originates their themes. These were prepared for them by fifty…

— Hannah Arendt

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

— Tom Robbins

“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

“The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.”

— Hannah Arendt

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point…

— Anthony Daniels

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

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

— Noam Chomsky

The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that…

— Edward Bernays

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become…

— Bernard Crick

“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

“It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control is distinctive…

— Alex Carey

When totalitarian regimes are established, they at least have the illusion of the single-minded purpose. But once they establish the stature that's necessary for…

— Masha Gessen