"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
Bertrand Russell
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