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"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is ... people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction ... and the distinction between true and false ... no longer exist."
Source
Hannah Arendt — The Origins of Totalitarianism
Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
Author
Hannah Arendt
Date
1951
Credibility & evidentiary value

Landmark political-theory analysis of how terror and ideology dissolve shared reality. Historical and interpretive; widely cited across the spectrum.

Citation · Chicago

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951).

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