"The very fact that man is capable of speech is enough to prove that he is not merely an animal."

"The sad fact is that the evil in this world is in general not done by evil people, but by good people who are not good enough."

"The most potent weapon of the totalitarian regime is not terror, but isolation."

"The only way to resist totalitarianism is to think."

"The most important political question of our time is the question of how to prevent totalitarianism."