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    “I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the beauty of diversity. The new citizens of our world will be reduced to nothing but numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed for disobedience.

    We have lost our humanity.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
    tags: dystopia, humanity, juliette, reestablishment
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    “The world I remember was tired and racist and volatile as hell, ripe for a hostile takeover by a shit regime.
    We were already divided.
    The conquering was easy.”
    ― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me
    tags: dystopia, kenji, racism
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  • #3
    “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
    ― James Waterman Wise
    tags: fascism, misattributed-sinclair-lewis
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    Henry A. Wallace
    “A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.”
    ― Henry Wallace
    tags: fascism, politics, tolerance
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    Toni Morrison
    “Let us be reminded that before there is a final solution, there must be a first solution, a second one, even a third. The move toward a final solution is not a jump. It takes one step, then another, then another,”
    ― Toni Morrison, The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
    tags: fascism, racism
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    Henry Kissinger
    “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
    ― Henry Kissinger
    tags: corruption, dishonesty, politics
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    Mark Twain
    “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: america, congress, corruption, government
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    G. Edward Griffin
    “To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.”
    ― G. Edward Griffin
    tags: corruption, patriotism
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  • #9
    “You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
    tags: african-leaders, anas-ayemeyaw-anas, anti-corruption, bad-leaders, bribery, bribery-corruption, conflicts, continent, corruption, country, destroy, destroy-a-nation, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, money, nation, nations, personal-development, pockets, political, political-leaders, political-perversion, political-pockets, politics, say-not-to-corruption, self-improvement, steal, thief, thieves, violence, war
    32 likes

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  • #10
    Edmund Burke
    “Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: corruption, freedom, liberty
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    Eugene V. Debs
    “In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
    ― Eugene Victor Debs
    tags: authoritarianism, deception, exploitation, fundamentalism, nationalism, oppression, patriotism, religion, totalitarianism, tyranny
    502 likes

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    Bruce Coville
    “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
    ― Bruce Coville
    tags: censorship, control, dictatorship, information, tyranny
    327 likes

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    Hannah Arendt
    “Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
    ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
    tags: 1968, adolf-hitler, big-lie, fascism, post-factual, post-truth, propaganda, reality-control, totalitarianism
    247 likes

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    Edward Abbey
    “The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”
    ― Edward Abbey
    tags: government, oppression, subversion, totalitarianism, tyranny, wit
    54 likes

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    Shon Mehta
    “Fascism is always about controlling the narrative of the public. Any bad incident or bad decision is never their fault. It is always someone else’s fault.
    It is the opposition’s fault, it is foreign powers fault, or it is the minority population’s fault. As long as they control the narrative, they control the power.”
    ― Shon Mehta
    tags: fascism, oligarchy, totalitarianism
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    A.E. Samaan
    “Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.”
    ― A.E. Samaan
    tags: bill-of-rights, genocide, gun-rights, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, right-to-bear-arms, rights, second-amendment
    30 likes

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    A.R. Merrydew
    “The demise of the human race rests mainly on the shoulders of stupidity, and the abuse of power in the hands of those we have elected.”
    ― A.R. Merrydew
    tags: abuse-of-power, ai, ai-theme, artificial-intelligence, cyberpunk, futuristic, machine-learning, machines, science-fiction, techno
    96 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography
    tags: evil, good, history, invincibility, tyrants, victory
    588 likes

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    Melina Marchetta
    “Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.”
    ― Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
    tags: death, tyrants
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    Abhijit Naskar
    “When the invader stomps on innocent lives, not choosing a side is a consent to oppression.”
    ― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
    tags: humanitarian-crisis, occupation, oligarchy, oppression, russian-imperialism, social-justice, tyranny, tyrants, war-and-peace
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    Mercedes Lackey
    “Knowledge will always be the best weapon against tyrants.”
    ― Mercedes Lackey, The Black Gryphon
    tags: education, fight, knowledge, tyranny, tyrants, weapon
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    Jonathan Mayhew
    “It is blasphemy to call tyrants and oppressors, God’s ministers. They are more properly the messengers of Satan to buffet us. No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are just, ruling in the fear of God”
    ― Jonathan Mayhew
    tags: fear-of-god, gods-law, government, oppressors, romans-13, tyranny, tyrants
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    “You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again.”
    ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Двести лет вместе
    tags: limits-of-power, nothing-left-to-lose, tyranny
    513 likes

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    C.J. Redwine
    “Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.”
    ― C.J. Redwine, Defiance
    tags: courage, inspirational, tyranny
    111 likes

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    David Icke
    “No one rules if no one obeys”
    ― David Icke
    tags: following, law, rules, tyranny
    62 likes

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  • #26
    “Let them shoot us in the head,
    My blood will grow roots
    and will blossom.”
    ― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry
    tags: creativity, oppression, poetry, tyranny
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  • #27
    “Weak men cannot handle power. It will either crush them, or they will use it to crush others”
    ― Jocelyn Murray, The English Pirate
    tags: bold, corruption, cowardice, government, oppression, power, tyranny, weakness-and-strength
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    Benjamin Franklin
    “It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, A Letter From Benjamin Franklin To Benjamin Vaughan: Containing Some Observations On The Prodigal Practices Of Publishers
    tags: blackstones-ratio, judicial, justice, law, prison, tyranny
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  • #29
    Pernell Plath Meier
    “Most of us knew in our bones that things with the world weren’t right, long before it became a crisis.”
    ― Pernell Plath Meier, In Our Bones
    tags: abusive-relationships, authoritarianism, between-the-lines-pub, corona-pandemic, dystopian, election-2020, great-read, kindleunlimited, racial-tension
    173 likes

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    Suchitra Vijayan
    “When a state treats its citizens as an existential threat then that state ceases to be a democracy.”
    ― Suchitra Vijayan
    tags: authoritarianism, democracy, dissent, india
    6 likes



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