“Prejudice is the emotional commitment to ignorance.”
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“Kershaw did not minimise the historical role played by his insane, ideological fixations, but he did illustrate that without the readiness of many people to work for the man in charge, there would have been no way he could have achieved his murderous aims.”
― Adolf Hitler: Die Jahre des Aufstiegs 1889 - 1939 Biographie
― Adolf Hitler: Die Jahre des Aufstiegs 1889 - 1939 Biographie
“Hamilton’s besetting fear was that American democracy would be spoiled by demagogues who would mouth populist shibboleths to conceal their despotism.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.”
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“He had learned a lesson about propaganda in politics and mused wearily that “no character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.” If a charge was made often enough, people assumed in the end “that a person so often accused cannot be entirely innocent.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
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