The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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Slavery became the social condition of the laboring classes because it was felt that it was the natural condition of life itself.
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Half of politics is “image-making”, the other half is the art of making people believe the image.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.
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The crime of the Nuremberg Laws was a national crime; it violated national, constitutional rights and liberties, but it was of no concern to the comity of nations.
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The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
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When all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
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