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Hannah Arendt1906–1975

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.

Hannah Arendt on power

The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), Part 3, Chapter 10

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