Hannah Arendt:

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 Modern

Banality of evil, political theory

Context

Book: 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'

Date / Period

1951

Source

https://books.google.com/books?id=x7HACwAAQBAJ&pg=PT471

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Explanation

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