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“In the 1930s, before the rise of the communist regime, there were already strong forces in the culture that paved the way for it,” says Patrik Benda, a Prague political consultant, of his native Czechoslovakia. “All the artists and intellectuals advocated communist ideas, and if you didn’t agree, you were marked for exclusion. This was almost two decades before actual communism took power.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“We cannot hope to resist the coming soft totalitarianism if we do not have our spiritual lives in order. This is the message of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the great anti-communist dissident, Nobel laureate, and Orthodox Christian. He believed the core of the crisis that created and sustained communism was not political but spiritual.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“Propaganda helps change the world by creating a false impression of the way the world is.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“This was a revolution even more radical than the 1917 Bolshevik event, said Rieff. For the first time, humankind was seeking to create a civilization based on the negation of any binding transcendent order.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents