"The elite's contempt for the genius and its yearning for anonymity was still witness of a spirit which neither the masses nor the mob were in a position to understand, and which, in the words of Robespierre, strove to assert the grandeur of man against the pettiness of the great." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 332).
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