“It belongs to totalitarian thinking to conceive of a final conflict at all. There is no finality to history — the story told by it is a story with many beginnings but no ends.”

— Hannah Arendt, quoted by Lyndsey Stonebridge in
We Are Free to Change the World, 2024, page 24

“Maybe it’s this. An oppressed people’s beliefs are not benign just because they lack power. Beliefs are good or bad on their own merits, because nothing stays the same. Demographics change. Empires weaken. Insurgents take charge. Without a clear set of ethics that respects human life, today’s victims transform into tomorrow’s killers. Oppressed becomes oppressor the moment the power flips.”

— Molly Crabapple, Where We Live Is Our Country:
The Story of the Jewish Bund, 2026, page 372