First they fascinate the fools, then they muzzle the intelligent.

— Bertrand Russel, paraphrased on how fascism starts.

or, in full -

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.[1]

  1. ^ Russell, Bertrand (1940). Anshen, Ruth Nanda (ed.). Freedom. New York: Harcourt Brace.
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