exploit advantageous position to enforce prejudices – regulating for maximum control over others

 Bertrand Russell

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Bertrand Russell – The Impact of Science on Society

Totalitarianism has a theory as well as a practice. As a practice, it means that a certain group, having by one means or another seized the apparatus of power, especially armaments and police, proceed to exploit their advantageous position to the utmost, by regulating everything in the way that gives them the maximum of control over others.

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