"Real power begins where secrecy begins."

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his neve…"

"Hitler never intended to defend ‘the West’ against Bolshevism but always remained ready to join ‘the Reds’ for the de…"

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crack…"

"The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dea…"

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the …"

"The Nazis were ‘convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,’ Bolshevik assurances inside …"

"The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the …"

"The only man for whom Hitler had "unqualified respect" was "Stalin the genius," and while in the case of Stalin and t…"

"It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think."