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“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
- Primo Levi
- Primo Levi
"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"
- Edmund Burke, British author, philospher, and political theorist
- Edmund Burke, British author, philospher, and political theorist
"A fascist is a follower of a political philosophy characterized by authoritarian views and a strong central government — and no tolerance for opposing opinions. [...] Under fascist rule, the emphasis is on the group — with few individual rights."
"They are raised by their parents, by their schools, by the government, by the culture, by all the authoritarian messages built into everything… to think that obedience is a virtue. And when you raise a culture to think that, and you get one crazy psycho at the top who says -->
--> "Hey, go do bad stuff!" people say "Well, I have to follow orders, I have to obey the law. I have to do as I am told, because that's a virtue!" And then good people march on and do evil stuff." -->
--> "I'm not scared of the Mao's and the Stalin's and the Hitler's. I'm scared of the thousands or millions of people that hallucinate them to be authority and so do their bidding, and pay for their empires, and carry out their orders." -->
--> "I don't care if there's one loonie with a stupid mustache - he's not a threat if the people don't believe in authority. Some people assume that you must trust everybody if you don't want government, but that's not at all true. I don't nearly trust everybody" -->
--> "but if I don't trust people to run their own lives, why on Earth would I trust them to be in a position of power where they can forcibly run other people's lives?"
- Larken Rose
- Larken Rose
