"...por vós esperamos"

"Every age has its own fascism, and we see the warning signs wherever the concentration of power denies citizens the possibility and the means of expressing and acting on their own free will. We may come to this in many different ways, not necessarily through the terror of police intimidation, but also by denying and distorting information, by undermining justice, by paralyzing schools, and by spreading in many subtle ways nostalgia for a world where order reigned supreme, and where the security of a privileged few depended on the forced labor and the forced silence of the many".

Primo Levi, A past we thought would never return ([1974] 2002)

"Nothing is more characteristic of the totalitarian movements in general and of the quality of the fame of their leaders in particular than the startling swiftness with which they are forgotten and the startling ease with which they can be replaced".
Hannah Arendt, The origins of totalitarianism (1973)