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Anti-Fascist Playbook: Truth Sayers, Saying Truths

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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno

Only a coward wishes to strike fear into others. Only a sadistic coward approves of and authorizes torture.
Professor Emeritus Pete Bagnolo

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke

ProfessorEmeritus Peter Bagnolo:
A democracy becomes extinct when enough contractors realize that they can vote themselves huge contracts out of the Treasury. It becomes exinct exponentially faster, when they are Declared:
"Uniquely Qualified No-Bid Contractors!

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.
Edvard Teller

He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.
Claudian

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
Axel Munthe

So easily do weak men put in high positions turn villains.
Dmitry Pisarev

A fool is very dangerous when in power.
Denis Fonvizin

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
African proverb

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass

Tyrannical Governments are elected by those who fail to vote. In 2000 & 2004 60% of single, adult, women did not vote.
Professor Emeritus Pete Bagnolo

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

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Professor Bagnolo has majored in: Cultural Anthropology, Architectural design, painting, creative writing. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, he was offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.
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