Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

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

Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.

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 coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.