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.
— Hannah Arendt Modern

Banality of evil, political theory

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Book: 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'

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1951

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Shocking

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https://books.google.com/books?id=x7HACwAAQBAJ&pg=PT372

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