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"...Throughout the play, the response to the intolerable is ritualized, in language and action, because ritual is the ultimate means by which man seeks to order and control his precarious and unstable world.'” - D.J. Palmer

"The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life; ...for as it is not one swallow or one fine day that makes a spring, so it is not one day or a short time that makes a man blessed and happy." - Aristotle

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle...Even democracy ruins itself by excess...it becomes disastrous because the people are not properly equipped by education to select the best rulers.

...The crowd loves flattery, it is so "hungry for honey," that at last the wiliest and most unscrupulous flatterer, calling himself the "protector of the people, rises to supreme power."

"The language and symbols of an authentic American fascism would have little to do with the original European models... No swastikas in an American fascism, but Stars and Stripes and Christian crosses.... Around such reassuring language and symbols and in the event of some redoubtable setback to national prestige, Americans might support an enterprise of forcible national regeneration, unification, and purification."

"While a new fascism would necessarily diabolize some enemy, both internal and external, the enemy would not necessarily by Jews. An authentically popular American fascism would be pious, antiblack and, since September 11, 2001, anti-Islamic as well... The British moralist George Orwell noted in the 1930s that an authentic British fascism would come reassuringly clad in sober English dress."

Odysseus' decade-long exile has nothing on the feat of endurance it was to read this far.

"Today it is quite clear that businessmen [in fascist regimes] often objected to specific aspects of fascist economic policies, sometimes with success. But fascist economic policy responded to political priorities, and not to economic rationale. Both Mussolini and Hitler tended to think that economics was amenable to a ruler's will."

"Fascist propagandists wanted us to see the leader alone on his pinnacle, and they had remarkable success...

No dictator rules by himself. He must obtain the cooperation, or at least the acquiescence, of the decisive agencies of rule- the military, the police, the judiciary, senior civil servants - and of powerul social and economic forces...

Fascism [depends on] conservative elites to open the gates."

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