Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
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Quote Origin: Fascist Movement – To Fascinate Fools and Muzzle the Intelligent – Quote Investigator®
The problem with the modern world, as Bertrand Russell put it, is that “the stupid are cocksure while the…
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Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Le Bon’s 1895 book The Crowd might be one of the most influential in history—not because of how many read it, but because of who read it. Hitler, Lenin, and especially Mussolini were all heavily influenced by his study of mass psychology, explicitly so.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
To force citizens to speak falsehoods as though they were the truth is a form of psychological control common to dictatorships.
Andrew Doyle • Free Speech And Why It Matters
The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent. One feels in fact, when talking to him, that one is dealing, not with the man himself, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like, which have taken hold of him. He is under a spell, he is blinded, his very nature is being misused and exploited. Having
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The crowds, at some point, mutate, blinded by anger and a sense of outrage, fueled by the heroism of a few willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause (although they don’t quite see it as sacrifice) and hungry for the privilege to become martyrs. It is that political movements and rebellions can be highly antifragile, and the sucker game is to t... See more