Tao Te Ching

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

— Hannah Arendt 1906 – 1975 CE
Fearless researcher into the darker reaches of the human psyche
from The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)