The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
--Hannah Arendt
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
--Hannah Arendt
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Humans can adapt to endure almost anything, but in doing so, they sometimes perpetuate incredible evil. The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.
Hannah Arendt - The Banality of Evil
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Her insightful essay on the Pentagon Papers, “Lying in Politics” is absolutely relevant to today’s politics.
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Que fuerte esto de H Arend; son modas las del ‘33 (Nationalsozialismus) y del 2017?
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That may be the most important quote I’ve been reminded of in years. Thanks.
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I STRONGLY recommend reading Hannah Arendt in these times. Brilliant. And terrifyingly familiar.
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I will. Thank you for the recommendation.
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Her book "The Origins of Totalitarianism."
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