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“government policy.”
― Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

“The point of all of these changes was not to make government run better. The point was to make the government more partisan, the courts more pliable, more beholden to the party.”
― Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

“Law and Justice took over the state public broadcaster—also in violation of the constitution—firing popular presenters and experienced reporters. Their replacements, recruited from the far-right extremes of the online media, began running straightforward ruling-party propaganda, sprinkled with easily disprovable lies, at taxpayers’ expense.”
― Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

“don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have re- belled long ago! There’s a destructive urge in people, the urge to rage, murder and kill. And until all of humanity, without exception, undergoes a metamorphosis, wars will continue to be waged, and everything that has been carefully built up, cultivated and grown will be cut down and destroyed, only to start allover again!”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl