Radical Evil

Hitchens' definition of radical evil generated by totalitarianism: "You do more violence, more cruelty that you absolutely have to stay in power. You've already made your point, you've done everything you need to do to make people realise that you're in power. But you somehow can't stop. There has to be a special appetite, there must be prisons for rape, there must be special mass graves just for children, there must be the desire to see how far you can go and even if you know that this would in the end bring you retribution it's worth it in some sense for its own sake..."