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"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."

"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."

"Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx."

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

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

"Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity."
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