Do You Need to Be Abused to Become Totalitarian?

There's cowardice and lack of faith. Each of those things feeds into the other, and it's very difficult to say where it starts. Even small mistakes anywhere along this circle can start the development of precisely this kind of spiral. And so all these little tiny mistakes that i think are marked by your own conscience, are precisely that leads you down this terrible path. The fact that you walk away from it makes it much more likely that it's going to happen.