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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

— Ignazio Silone The School for Dictators (1938)

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"Political regimes come and go, but bad habits endure." (alt trans = 'remain')

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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