"The freedom to be political is the freedom to change the world."

"The subterranean stream of Western history has finally come to the surface and usurped the dignity of a tradition."

"The problem of evil in the twentieth century is not the problem of radical evil, but the problem of the banality of evil."

"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many others were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, but were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal."

"The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of tyranny, is to make terror a permanent institution."