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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Hannah Arendt

"The Origins of Totalitarianism"

Since we’re awash in this contemporary ocean of speculation, we forget that things can be known with certainty, and that we need not live in a fearful world of interminable unsupported opinion. But the gulf that separates hard fact from speculation is by now so unfamiliar that most people can’t comprehend it.

Michael Crichton

"Why Speculate?"

Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.

Hannah Arendt

"The Origins of Totalitarianism"