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Il fascismo eterno (Italian Edition)
Agalia • how are you talking about yourself today?
homo sacer: in Roman law, a person banned from society, excluded from its legal protections but still subject to the sovereign’s power.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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
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.