Strangely, it is always America that is described as degenerate and ‘fascist’, while it is solely in Europe that actual dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up.
~ Jean-François Revel
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Man is what he believes.
~ Anton Chekhov
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It is easier for the prince to make friends of those men who were contented under the former government, and are therefore his enemies, than of those who, being discontented with it, were favourable to him and encouraged him to seize it.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership. There can be no mass movement without some deliberate misrepresentation of facts.
~ Eric Hoffer
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That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
~ Haruki Murakami
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This is not the story of a man who joined the people. It’s the story of a man who studied them, branded them and built a media empire on their backs. He frames everything as a spiritual battle — America versus the elites. But Steve Bannon is the elite. He just speaks rage fluently. So here’s the question: if a man tells you he’s at war with the empire while still cashing royalty checks from it, do you believe him? Or do you finally see it for what it is?
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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