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The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 "A Classless Society," sec. 1 (1951) - Arendt, Hannah | WIST Quotations
For the propaganda of totalitarian movements which precede and accompany totalitarian regimes is invariably as frank as it is mendacious, and would-be totalitarian rulers usually start their careers by boasting of their past crimes and carefully outlining their future ones. The Nazis were "convinced that evil-doing in our time has…