Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
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.
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Bertrand Russell in his essay Freedom and Government, in a collection of essays titled “Freedom: Its Meaning” edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen