“The aggressiveness of totalitarianism springs only for ideological reasons: to make the world consistent, to prove that its respective supersense has been right.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Totalitarianism, Danger of Systems, Dangerous Ideals, Homogeneity, Christian Science
“The experience of the concentration camps shows that human beings can be transformed into specimens of the human animal, and man’s 'nature' is only 'human' insofar as it opens up to man the possibility of becoming something highly unnatural, that is, a man.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Ideals, Constructivism, Never Again
“Totalitarian terror achieved its most terrible triumph when it succeeded in cutting the moral person off from the individualist escape. When a man is faced with the alternative of betraying and thus murdering his friends or of sending his wife and children to their death; how is he to decide? The al…”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Framework Foundations, Governing Frameworks, Totalitarian, Conditioning, Societal Construction
“Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitations to its economic expansion.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Imperialism, Economic History