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“Power cannot survive when its subjects free themselves from fear.”
― Michael Hardt, Declaration

“The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection—the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which—and against which—movements of resistance and rebellion must act.”
― Michael Hardt, Declaration

“Fear dominates. Thus come charismatic leaders to protect these classes and populist organizations to convince them they belong to an identity, which is merely a social grouping that is no longer coherent.”
― Michael Hardt, Declaration

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves