# Quote — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

> The Nazis were ‘convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,’ Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.

- Author: [Hannah Arendt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt.md)
- Book: [The Origins of Totalitarianism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hannah-arendt/the-origins-of-totalitarianism.md)
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