There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor in prisons and penal colonies, banishment, slavery, all seem for a moment to offer helpful comparisons, but on closer examination lead nowhere.

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

The presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.