06-08-2017, 11:24 AM
Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Maybe we must at times use the bad as the defense against the horrific (let us say, choosing Schuschnigg over Hitler) in the expectation that genuine evil has an overpowering drive to entrench itself forever.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.