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“Is [Trumpzilla] strategic, or is he sophisticated enough to know the power of the kind of linguistic hand grenade that he has become?” ―John Oliver
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“Staying in an unhappy relationship because you were afraid you weren’t strong enough to be on your own — that [is] lonely and sad.” ―Lisa Ko
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“Smooth Imperial” ―Jakim Kalonji, 2017 / acrylic on canvas 🎨
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“...a book without women is often said to be about humanity but a book with women in the foreground is a woman’s book.” ―Rebecca Solnit
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“With [Trumpzilla] you're dealing with a human wrecking ball.” ―John Oliver
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“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Amid economic dislocation and the loss of stable identities, the Nazis’ promise of Aryan superiority is stabilizing. Stalin understood that people would easily overlook lies and mass murder if it were in their interest to do so.” ―Roger Berkowitz
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“The basic experience underlying totalitarianism, the experience that continues today to make it likely that totalitarianism remains a constant concern, is loneliness, an alienation from political, social, and cultural life.” ―Roger Berkowitz 🐦
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“[The white supremacists] also made a point to defend Donald Trump, at one point chanting ‘Russia is our friend’.” ―Adam Peck 🎨
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“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“But if planning the end of a relationship feels like plotting a murder, then planning the start of one feels more like donning a suicide vest.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky 🎨
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“Trump is a painful reminder of what America is at risk of losing, and how far high it has yet to climb.” ―David Masciotra
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“That message? Again, it wasn’t to operate in totalitarian fear. More like: Sit quietly, enjoy your new bike lanes, or face a carefully randomized punishment.” ―Michael Idov 🎨
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“As an artist right now there’s so much to work on and figure out and explain. I definitely shy away from ‘Trump is stupid’. No, he’s breaking the law. That's clear, I don't need to embellish.” ―Robin Bell
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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“I have trained myself, through dedicated practice on and off the mat, to find enough inner strength not to burst out laughing when the instructor ends the class by declaring ‘let the light in me honor the light in you.’” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.” ―Hannah Arendt
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“Civil rights are not a consideration of the undernourished.” ―S•Town, Chapter IV, 28 March 2017
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“That sense of the pregnant body as abject goes back millennia, as the pregnant body is a woman’s body at its most fecund, but also in its most grotesque figuration: the body swells, expands, and oozes, the boundary between inside and outside permeable.”
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“He went on to talk about the trouble with racially interbred societies, the genetic basis of criminality, and his belief that the South should secede.” ―Lauren Collins
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“What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world, is that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience of the masses of our century.”
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“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Freedom is slavery.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“It's entirely possible to criticize a woman without being sexist; you just have to apply the same criticisms as you would to a man, with the same level of harshness.” ―Sady Doyle
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“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Nothing gets a new couple high on their own supply like having brunch with an inferior couple.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Hallie Bateman 🎨
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“Loving white American men is like eating melon—it is exactly what I want until I put it in my mouth and recall its insistent, aggressive blandness. Even when they are cruel, they are casual.” ―Namwali Serpell
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“There was, however, one thing from which no creature comfort could shield you: the general breakdown of trust. Wealth may or may not trickle down, but normalized corruption certainly does.” ―Michael Idov
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“One way or another, [Trumpzilla] knows he has stepped off a cliff, pronounced himself king of the air, and is in freefall. Another dungheap awaits his landing; the dung is all his; when he plunges into it he will be, at last, a self-made man.”
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“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free... to a time when truth exists, and what is done cannot be undone... From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – greetings!”
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“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions — ‘the Party says the earth is flat’, ‘the party says that ice is heavier than water’ — and trained himself in not seeing the arguments that contradict them.”
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“Life is Rape. The rest is jus' details.” ―Arundhati Roy
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“The lonely work of taking basic care of yourself as you wait for the world to change is a poor substitute [for community].” ―Laurie Penny
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“Late Capitalism is as good an excuse of any for not getting out of bed, but huddling under the covers worrying about Donald Trump is a very inefficient way of sticking it to the man.” ―Laurie Penny
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“These meaningless little gestures belied an overall acquiescence. All they did was make me feel temporarily better about myself.” ―Michael Idov
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“Going on pole or tree in front yard.” ―Anonymous
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“Without any pesky human distractions, you and your new other half — also you — will continue unimpeded on the path toward world domination, provided the two of you never discover the Internet.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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Totalitarian movements don’t aim to discredit particular facts; they seek to breed “extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of the man who can fabricate it.” —Hannah Arendt
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“Sanity is not statistical.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“Do whatever it takes to make your life more worth living. Just don’t be mean.” ―Kate Bornstein
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“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.” ―Rick Riordan
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“Changing your attitude is not going to change or help to dismantle structural injustice and a failed and unsustainable economic model which serves only the elite rich of this world, and exploits the rest of us.” ―Chloe King 🎨
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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“You are free and that is why you are lost.” ―Franz Kafka
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“...she’ll always be perceived as new money, and her fame will always be centered on her body and, as such, easily dismissed and delegitimized.” ―Anne Helen Petersen
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Loneliness is the feeling of being “deserted by all human companionship”; it is “the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man.” ―Hannah Arendt
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“Creativity takes courage.” ―Henri Matisse
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“...but being heard is not the same as feeling known. Nothing can substitute for the presence of an actual human person.” ―Joe Berkowitz & Joanna Neborsky
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“Anxious millennials now seem to have a choice between desperate narcissism and crushing misery. Which is better? The question is not rhetorical.” ―Laurie Penny 🎨
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“Trust, on the other hand, is trust. It’s either there or it isn’t.” ―Michael Idov
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“Things happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.” ―Meg Rosoff 🙏
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“We are not in a police state now, not yet. I’m talking about what may come.” ―Daniel Ellsberg 🌼 🏡 🌸
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“To offer my brownness to white men is still to grant them the only experience that they are denied by definition. To love a white man is to put yet another thing within his reach.” ―Namwali Serpell
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“‘It doesn’t affect me’—white people can say that, because it didn’t affect them. But, when I think of the damage that has been done, it cannot be undone.” ―Lonnie Randolph
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“All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” ―Blaise Pascal
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“Among the services I offer to white boyfriends: a built-in comfort with whiteness; skillful code-switching; and free lessons in what W.E.B. Du Bois called “double consciousness”.” ―Namwali Serpell
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“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.” ―George Orwell / “1984”
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