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Quotes from The Night of the Generals — Hans Hellmut Kirst

d. 1989 Germany

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All you have to do is anesthetize the masses by telling them they’re an elite, that they’ve got a mission, that they’re making history, that they’re fulfilling their destiny and fighting for a better world — and they swallow it like lambs — even when a guttersnipe says it.

The Night of the Generals (1962)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hans Hellmut Kirst (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.