Status Updates From Hannah Arendt: For Love of ...

"Man's urge for change and his need for stability have always balanced and checked each other, and our current vocabulary, which distinguishes between two factions, the progressives and the conservatives, indicates a state of affairs in which this balance has been thrown out of order."

“Totalitarianism, a novelty among forms of government, is not, like tyranny, the atrophy of politics; it is the radical elimination of politics brought about by the methodical elimination of the very humanity of first a selected group and eventually any group, by making humans superfluous as human beings. Such is totalitarianism's "radical evil."”