“ ‘(Totalitarianism) bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man.’ Chronic unemployment, inflation and punitive taxation, the debasement or suppression of a public forum for action and debate, the dislocation that comes from moving from nation to nation or job to job, the imposed inconsequence of innocence and guilt, in groups and out groups, the threat of terror — all tools of totalitarian dominance — seem to prepare victims and bullies alike to undervalue their lives.”
— Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times by Anne C. Heller
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