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Message 37 of 65 (426234)
10-05-2007 6:06 PM
Reply to: Message 32 by Hyroglyphx
10-05-2007 5:38 PM


Re: How ideologies form
nemesis_juggernaut writes:
Plus they had a very powerful orator filling their minds with things they wanted to hear. The problem is, they had a much darker side too. One that sought out scapegoats to eliminate.
For a second there, I thought you were talking about Reagan.
quote:
"All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."
- Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for something like Nazism to arise... is an excuse, like hatred of Jews or hatred of science. You can tell who the "good men" are because they're the ones fighting such nonsense.

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