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Bret Stephens Quotes

born 1973 United States

Bret Louis Stephens (born 21 November 1973) is an American journalist, editor, and columnist. He began working at The New York Times in late April 2017.

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Why care about social formalities, modes of dress, niceties of speech, qualities of restraint? Not simply because manners make the man, although they do, but because manners also shape political cultures.

This is a presidency whose defining feature isn’t ideology, much less policy. It’s neurosis.

Dictatorships fall not only when they have implacable opponents but also exemplary victims: Steve Biko in South Africa, Benigno Aquino in the Philippines, Jerzy Popieluszko in Poland. Through their deaths, they awakened the living to the conviction that it was the regime that should die instead.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bret Stephens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.