"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the dist…"

"The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid 'dens of crime' that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labor camps. In those we see its final result. But it is c…"

"Action, not contemplation, is the highest human faculty."

"The very fact that totalitarianism can exist and endure, that it is not merely a transient phenomenon, is a terrifying thought."

"The most dangerous thing in the world is not evil, but thoughtlessness."