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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Hannah Arendt on Donald Trump, et al.

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.[1]

- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).




[1] Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt/"A Harvest Book", 1976), pp. 348,349.

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