Quote by Hannah Arendt
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

Other quotes by Hannah Arendt

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Loyalty
Read Quote

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Beauty
Read Quote

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses. – Hannah Arendt

Category:
Words
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Tyranny
category

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Tyranny

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. – Arthur Balfour

Category:
Tyranny

Disregard for human beings is the first qualification of a dictator. – Milton S. Eisenhower

Category:
Tyranny

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they dont turn against him, they crush those beneath them. – Emily Bronte

Category:
Tyranny

Random Quotes

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. – Voltaire

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. – Richard P. Feynman

Category:
Nature

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard. – Anne Spencer

Category:
communication

And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that Im probably regarded as quite prickly to work with. – Jeremy Irons

Category:
Trust