Allowance Quote by Jean Francois Revel

“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

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

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 surpasses autocracy.

— Bernard Crick

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

“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 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

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

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

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it…

— Geoff Ryman