“The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
“Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us — by taking everything.”
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
― Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
“Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see.”
― The Empathy Exams
― The Empathy Exams
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