Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concret…

Hannah Arendt
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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. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1968). Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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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. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1968). Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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