The Origins of Totalitarianism

Nation, however, conceived of its law as an outgrowth of a unique national substance which was not valid beyond its own people and the boundaries of its own territory.

The Dreyfus Affair brought to light how deeply rooted antisemitism was in French society and the manipulation of political power.

Antisemitism seemed to be a thing of the past; the more the governments lost in power and prestige, the less attention was paid to the Jews.

The mob is primarily a group in which the residue of all classes are represented.

The antisemitic press had stopped men's mouths by publishing Reinach's lists of the deputies involved in the Panama scandal.

The trial of Dreyfus was a reflection of the aristocracy and the clergy manipulating their influence against the republic.

Imperialism is not empire building and expansion is not conquest.

The superfluous forces, superfluous capital and superfluous working power, joined hands and left the country together.

The owners of superfluous wealth were the first section of the class to want profits without fulfilling some real social function.

The secret of the new happy fulfillment was precisely that economic laws no longer stood in the way of the greed of the owning classes.