"The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of tyranny, is to make terror a permanent institution."

"The greatest evil is not what is done by bad people, but what is done by good people who are thoughtless."

"The greatest crimes in history are not committed by 'madmen' but by 'normal' people who are too weak to resist the pressure of the moment."

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coer…"