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Il fascismo eterno (Italian Edition)
"The stronger [the] identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction."
Agalia • how are you talking about yourself today?
We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them.”
— Hannah Arendt
The Wisdom Letter #173
The world we live in today is not just the one created by the likes of Tiberius of Rome, or even Emperor Wu of Han. Until surprisingly recent times, spaces of human freedom existed across large parts of our planet. Millions lived in them. We don’t know their names, as they didn’t carve them in stone, but we know that many lived lives in which one c... See more
David Wengrow • An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
The idea of the Citizen is that his individual human nature shall be constantly and creatively active in altering the State. The Germans are right in regarding the idea as dangerously revolutionary. Every Citizen is a revolution. That is, he destroys, devours and adapts his environment to the extent of his own thought and conscience.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
In France this security is sought for in powers exercised by the heads of the administration; in America it is sought for in the principle of election.