"Action, to be free, must be for something that is not yet."

"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."

"The sad fact is that the evil in this world is in general not done by evil people, but by good people who are not good enough."

"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 most important political question of our time is the question of how to prevent totalitarianism."