From “Freedom and Government” an essay by Bertrand Russell
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity.
The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
From “Freedom and Government” an essay by Bertrand Russell
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity.
The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
The very first time I had the honor to meet Noam Chomsky it was at his office (at the time, at MIT).
Not only was it intimidating to meet Noam (“I’m not worthy was playing on loop in my head”) the feeling was magnified by a poster of Bertrand Russell on Noam’s office wall. A very stern looking Bertrand Russell.
From “Freedom and Government” an essay by Bertrand Russell
"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity.
The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/02/28/fools-muzzle/
The very first time I had the honor to meet Noam Chomsky it was at his office (at the time, at MIT).
Not only was it intimidating to meet Noam (“I’m not worthy was playing on loop in my head”) the feeling was magnified by a poster of Bertrand Russell on Noam’s office wall. A very stern looking Bertrand Russell.
Oh to have been at Cambridge a hundred years ago. Russell, Hardy, Littlewood, Ramanujan et al. what conversations they must have had.