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“He can switch from one view to another with frightening ease. I think it is a sign of being accustomed to such power that the truth does not matter because you cannot be contradicted.”

Power Contradiction Contradictory Abuse Of Power Absolute Power Rule By Fear Contradicting Oneself

Book:Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

“Self-centered people often get angry when someone tells them no. Stan said yes out of fear that he would lose love and that other people would get angry at him. These false motives and others keep us from setting boundaries:”

Boundaries Self Centered Loss Of Love Passivity Submissive Self Centeredness Controlling Parents Boundaries Quotes Controlling Others Controlling People Fear Of Abandonment Self Centered People Boundary Issues Confrontational Submitting Rule By Fear Boundaryless Self Centered Man

Book:Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

Source: Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life

“A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate and frighten opponents, but as an instrument to rule masses of people who are perfectly obedient. Terror as we know it today strikes without any preliminary provocation, its victims are innocent even from the point of view of the persecutor. This was the case in Nazi Germany when full terror was directed against Jews, i.e., against people with certain common characteristics which were independent of their specific behavior. In Soviet Russia the situation is more confused, but the facts, unfortunately, are only too obvious. On the one hand, the Bolshevik system, unlike the Nazis, never admitted theoretically that it could practice terror against innocent people, and though in view of certain practices this may look like hypocrisy, it makes quite a difference. Russian practice, on the other hand, is even more "advanced" than the German in one respect: arbitrariness of terror is not even limited by racial differentiation, while the old class categories have long since been discarded, so that anybody in Russia may suddenly become a victim of the police terror. We are not concerned here with the ultimate consequence of rule by terror—namely, that nobody, not even the executors, can ever be free of fear; in our context we are dealing merely with the arbitrariness by which victims are chosen, and for this it is decisive that they are objectively innocent, that they are chosen regardless of what they may or may not have done.”

Terrorism Communism Soviet Union Totalitarianism Nazism 1968 Antisemitism Rule By Fear Police Terror

Book:The Origins of Totalitarianism

Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism

“The mob believes everything it is told, provided only that it be repeated over and over. Provided too that its passions, hatreds, fears are catered to. Nor need one try to stay within the limits of plausibility: on the contrary, the grosser, the bigger, the cruder the lie, the more readily is it believed and followed. Nor is there any need to avoid contradictions: the mob never notices; needless to pretend to correlate what is said to some with what is said to others: each person or group believes only what he is told, not what anyone else is told; needless to strive for coherence: the mob has no memory; needless to pretend to any truth: the mob is radically incapable of perceiving it: the mob can never comprehend that its own interests are what is at stake.”

Propaganda 1945 Post Truth Mob Mentality Big Lie Orwellianism Rule By Fear

Book:Réflexions sur le mensonge

Source: Réflexions sur le mensonge