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"Not only Hitler and not only the failures thanked God on their knees when mobilization swept Europe in 1914. They did not even have to reproach themselves with having been an easy prey for chauvinist propaganda or lying explanations about the purely defensive character of the war. The elite went to war with an exultant hope that everything they knew, the whole culture and texture of life, might go down in its 'storms of steel'"
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism: The Temporary Alliance Between the Mob and the Elite
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