“Portland and Chicago will outlive him.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Fascism is violent nationalism.
In America, fascism is called Americanism.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“When you hear the first few notes of Stairway to Heaven, you immediately recognize the song, and you know what comes next.
That’s how Germans instantly recognized Trump as a Nazi, the minute he came down the escalator and accused Mexican immigrants of being rapists and murderers.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“If Trump doesn't want to be compared to Hitler, he should stop imitating Hitler.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“Mr. Carlisle became brisk. "Baby," he said, as Napoleon might have said to one of his Marshals when instructing him in his latest plan of campaign . . .”
“Gods, it felt good. Hot water was civilization. Vimes could feel the stiffness in his muscles melting away in the warmth.”
Source: The Fifth Elephant
“It serves to keep the records straight, and is a convenience to the public to whom one wants to do the square thing - affording as it does a bird's eye view of the position of affairs to those of his readers who, through no fault of their own, are not birds.”
“Many men in Packy's position would have shrunk from diving in to the rescue, fully clad. Packy was one of them.”
Source: Hot Water
“Domination was and is at the heart of penis politics: a man maintaining power over a woman through gender or sex-based control…. Andrew (Cuomo) was the master of the art of penis politics. In Washington, he’d given me a job and then worked to undermine me in it. He made me feel as if I were no good at my job and, thus, totally dependent on him to keep it…. I had never seen anyone push so hard, day, noon, and night… But I was soon to learn that, as Andrew pushed up and up, some of us would be pushed aside.”
Source: Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power
“Should I stay in Greenville, teach my students, or work for Mike Espy (in Washington, DC)….Capitol Hill had many more men than women walking the halls, whether they were members of Congress or congressional and committee staff or lobbyists. The receptionist was usually a woman, and the chief of staff, a man. Sometimes I wondered why anyone in Washington would want to listen to what a girl from Soso, Mississippi, had to say.”
Source: Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power