Hatred Quote by Masha Gessen

“Abstracted hatred is incredibly potent. There's never the risk of having it challenged by the reality of living human beings.”

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Where incompetence is prized, it is ever-present.

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You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

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Donald Trump creates word salads. And that is awful to language, because we try to parse out what he's saying and try to find…

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I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.

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Poverty and scarcity are actually very good for totalitarian societies. They maintain that sense of mobilization that's essential for totalitarian societies.

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Both Trump and Putin use language primarily to communicate not facts or opinions but power: it's not what the words mean that matters but…

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