Contemporary Quote by Herbert Marcuse

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

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

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging…

— George Orwell

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

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

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 essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out…

— Hannah Arendt

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

— Bernard Crick

The great enemy of any totalitarian regime is normalization and trade.

— Robert Scheer

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

— Tom Robbins

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

“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