"The most striking particularity of this whole phenomenon of totalitarianism is the extent to which it has been able to mobilize, to organize, and to put into action the sheer force of numbers."

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

"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coer…"

"The very fact that man is capable of speech is enough to prove that he is not merely an animal."

"The greatest danger of totalitarianism is not that it will fail, but that it will succeed."