Coercion Quote by Hannah Arendt

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when…

— Timothy D. Snyder

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

“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 totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not…

— Christopher Hitchens

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the…

— Giorgio Agamben

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

“The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they…

— Christopher Hitchens

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

— Adolf Hitler

There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us…

— Eric Hoffer

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

— Tom Robbins

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

— Hannah Arendt