Famous quotes containing the words begins, terrorizing and/or people:
“To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.”
—Thomas Carlyle (17951881)
“Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.”
—Hannah Arendt (19061975)
“Illusions are certainly expensive amusements: but the destruction of illusions is even more expensivewhen looked upon as an amusement, which to many people is what it undeniably is.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)