Hannah Arendt Totalitarianism Quotes

#1. It is as though a special, zestful spice seasons my work and days," RBG said after her first recovery. "Each thing I do comes with a heightened appreciation that I am able to do it." That

Irin Carmon

#2. The wisdom of age defeats the strength of youth.

Ginn Hale

#3. Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Hannah Arendt

#4. I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.

Ted Cruz

#5. Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.

Gerald M. Givens

#6. 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

#7. One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Hannah Arendt

#8. How chocolate turned white and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can't unmix things no matter how much you might want to.

Nicola Yoon

#9. Finn smiled and blew half her brain cells.
"You going to teach me how to have fun, Pru?" he asked in that low, husky voice.

Jill Shalvis

#10. Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.

Hannah Arendt

#11. For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man.

Hannah Arendt

#12. When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

John Harington

#13. It was a challenging experience. I'm looking forward to a break.

Martin Bashir

#14. (I know that last statement seems obvious. Everyone who meets me is fortunate, but you take my meaning.)

Rick Riordan

#15. What the mind forgets is that the ability to respond is the basis of life. If the ability is acknowledged willingly, you become blissful. If it happens unwillingly, you become miserable. Being

Sadhguru

#16. What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between private and public life. We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.

Timothy Snyder