Maria Popova on Twitter: "“Under conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not… No more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.” Never a bad day for Hannah Arendt: https://t.co/urqwuMoayr"

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1. Likes ‏ @AbleLikes 5 Oct 2019
  Replying to @brainpicker @marinamaral2
  
  "The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them." Powerful.
  
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1. HAND MARKED PAPER BALLOTS ‏ @habilis123 5 Oct 2019
  Replying to @brainpicker @MonicaLewinsky
  
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1. SinCityLiving‏ @sr_hampton 5 Oct 2019
  Replying to @brainpicker @MonicaLewinsky
  
  YES! I read that Mitt Romney got slammed with profanity. I imagine right-wing, evangelical conservatives, and the white house cronies and base are lining up for him. It seems he has a moral compass and spine that the vast majority of the politicians of The (republican) Party lack
  
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1. George A. Polisner, civ.works founder, #FBR‏ @FoamingPenguin 5 Oct 2019
  Replying to @brainpicker @BeSeriousUSA
  
  “Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.” --Hannah Arendtpic.twitter.com/P9DRm0L4Zt
  
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1. Janine Hendry‏ @janine_hendry 5 Oct 2019
  Replying to @brainpicker
  
  I want to be on the side of non compliance always
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1. Lawrence Wadey‏ @LawrenceWadey 6 Oct 2019
  Replying to @brainpicker @donwinslow
  
  just read that, very thought provoking, and made me think of that edmund burke quote along the lines of "all that it needs for evil to prosper, is for good men to do nothing."
  
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1. All Hail Fresh Starts ‏ @TheSaoirseBlog 6 Oct 2019
  Replying to @brainpicker @alexgibneyfilm
  
  @FoulisEuan
  
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1. Éadweard‏ @Ed35761527 6 Oct 2019
  Replying to @brainpicker @donwinslow
  
  This --> "Only the good has depth that can be radical."
  
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1. Babs ‏ @BabsSheKing 11 Oct 2019
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  @oxfordastrology I was just reflecting on the phrase 'banality of evil' this week. Synchronicity!
  
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