Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, th…

Hannah Arendt
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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 (1968). Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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