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“We are nearly complete in our evolution from Lewis and Clark into Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam.”
― That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
― That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world, is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the ever-growing masses of our century”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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