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““The state is for the recognition, endorsement, and protection of rights, which means creating the conditions under which rights can be recognized, endorsed, and protected. The state endures to create a sense of durability. A””

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“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”

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“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come,…

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“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of…

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“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.”

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“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the…

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“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.”

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“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It reveals moments, of each of them different, none entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility…

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“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.…

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“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.”

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“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.”

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“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt the president politically. Reality television must become most dramatic with each episode. If we found a video of the president performing Cossack dances while Vladimir Putin claps, we would probably just demand the same thing with the president…

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“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.”

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This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite.

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“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth.”

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