Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

[Emrys]

6. A few more quotes from Arendt's "Origins of Totalitarianism":

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions, but to destroy the capacity to form any.

Nothing, perhaps, illustrates the general disintegration of political life better than a vague pervasive hatred of everyone and everything.

And even more painfully apt to the current era:

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.