Eva

“our eagerness to understand people's desire to be slaves has had us glued to our smartphones and computer screens seeking answers, and the process has become so time consuming and so fulfilling that we have felt as if things are not actually happening to us.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“during the 8 years of his second term as prime minister, by supplying the unemployed with menial state-paid seasonal summer jobs designed by local government which took only a few hours a day, Orbán had lowered the unemployment rate from 11.4 to 3.8 per cent. This provided him with thousands of loyal supporters whose daily bread depended on his reelection.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“Every regime, without exception, starts building it's ideal citizen by tampering with its women. It takes a whole generation to create a new man, but redesigning women, so they believe, is an overnight job.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“He also knew that the call to break the imaginary chains of slavery preventing the real people from reaching greatness would resonate with his supporters, regardless of the fact that it sounded absurd to those who had had the chance to become what they wanted to be. ‘It’s not you,’ he told them. ‘It’s them who prevent us from being great.’ He gave them something solid to hate, and they gave him their votes.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship