"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many others were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, but were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal."

"Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."

"The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of tyranny, is to make terror a permanent institution."

"The only way to resist totalitarianism is to think."

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