Capitalism Quote by Herbert Marcuse

By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a…

— Herbert Marcuse

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

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

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 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

“Totalitarianism is the result of the hypostasis of the political and the correlative lowering of life as well as the individual. This term does…

— Michel Henry

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 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

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population…

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Hannah Arendt

The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell…

— George Orwell

“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared…

— Anne Applebaum