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What I do not accept, however, are the old clichés that to explain is to excuse, to understand is to forgive. Explaining is not excusing; understanding is not forgiving.
“Moreover, fascists do not invent the myths and symbols that compose the rhetoric of their movements but select those that suit their purposes from within the national cultural repertories. Most of these have no inherent or necessary link to fascism.”
― The Anatomy of Fascism
― The Anatomy of Fascism
“Fascists are close to power when conservatives begin to borrow their techniques, appeal to their “mobilizing passions," and try to co-opt the fascist following.”
― The Anatomy of Fascism
― The Anatomy of Fascism
“Of course,” she said, “Your Majesty.” I admired the way she could make the words sound so much like “You Idiot.”
― Return of the Thief
― Return of the Thief
“Fascisms seek out in each national culture those themes that are best capable of mobilizing a mass movement of regeneration, unification, and purity, directed against liberal individualism and constitutionalism and against Leftist class struggle.”
― The Anatomy of Fascism
― The Anatomy of Fascism
“Perpetrators did not become fellow victims (as many of them later claimed to be) in the way some victims became accomplices of the perpetrators. The relationship between perpetrator and victim was not symmetrical. The range of choice each faced was totally different.”
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
― Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
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