Action without a name, a “who” attached to it, is meaningless.

HANNAH ARENDT, The Human Condition

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.

HANNAH ARENDT, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

HANNAH ARENDT, The Origins of Totalitarianism