Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalit…

Hannah Arendt
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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 (1968). Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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