Could we get Hannah Arendt to go on the talk shows?

"The elite (of the movement) is not composed of ideologists; its members' whole education is aimed at abolishing their capacity for distinguishing between truth and falsehood, between reality and fiction. Their superiority consists in their ability immediately to dissolve every statement of fact into a declaration of purpose...the elite formations understand...that when they are told that only Moscow has a subway, the real meaning of the statement is that all subways should be destroyed...The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality. Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who, like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality."

"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."

"For the ruthless machines of domination and extermination, the masses of coordinated philistines proved much better material and were capable of even greater crimes than so-called professional criminals, provided only that these crimes were well organized and assumed the appearance of routine jobs...

"The philistine's retirement into private life, his single-minded devotion to matters of family and career was the last, and already degenerated, product of the (middle class's) belief in the primacy of private interest. The philistine is the (middle class man) isolated from his own class, the atomized individual who is produced by the breakdown of the (middle class) itself. The mass man whom Himmler organized for the greatest crimes ever committed in history bore the features of the philistine...and was the (middle class man), who in the midst of the ruins of his world, worried about nothing so much as his private security, was ready to sacrifice everything - belief, honor, dignity - on the slightest provocation. Nothing proved easier to destroy than the privacy and private morality of people who though of nothing but safeguarding their private lives. After a few years of power and systematic coordination, the Nazis could rightly announce: 'The only person who is still a private individual in Germany is somebody who is asleep.' "