Hannah Arendt Quote: Why Totalitarian Education Destroys Thought!
“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
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Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism: The Dark Truth About Power and Loyalty
0 Comments/in Hannah Arendt“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
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Hannah Arendt Quotes on Totalitarianism: Truth in a World of Deception
0 Comments/in Hannah Arendt“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
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Hannah Arendt Quote: Why Teaching to Think Forever Changes Obedience!
0 Comments/in Hannah Arendt“No one you teach to think can ever obey as before. Not out of a rebellious spirit, but because of the habit of examining all things when in doubt.”
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Hannah Arendt Quotes: The Shocking Psychology Behind Mass Propaganda Revealed!
0 Comments/in Hannah Arendt“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
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Hannah Arendt Quotes on Lies, Truth, and Totalitarian Education
0 Comments/in Hannah Arendt“This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want. The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”
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Hannah Arendt on the Dangerous Argument of the Lesser Evil – A Moral Warning
0 Comments/in Hannah Arendt“In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.[….] Acceptance of the lesser evil is deliberately used to accustom officials, as well as the population at large, to accept the evil itself.”
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Hannah Arendt Quote on Totalitarianism – The Real Danger Is Humanity
0 Comments/in Hannah Arendt“The real goal of totalitarian ideology is not the transformation of the external conditions of human existence and not the revolutionary reorganization of the social order, but the transformation of human nature itself, which, as it is, constantly opposes the totalitarian process. … What is at stake in total domination is really the essence of man.”
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