Best quotes by Masha Gessen on Power

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• ‟ Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

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• ‟ Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

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• ‟ Putin was very careful to gradually sort of rotate people in and out of power, to make sure that he had competent bureaucrats by his side at all times, to keep the machine running.

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• ‟ I think Donald Trump was brought to power by Americans. They voted for him.

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• ‟ I have experienced power as a journalist. On three different occasions, when I wrote about individual immigrants or refugees, the article - or, in one case, my presence in the courtroom - appeared to positively change the outcome of their cases.

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• ‟ Many Americans have been looking for an explanation for Mr. Trump's apparent adoration of Mr. Putin. How can a powerful, wealthy American man hold affection for the tyrannical, corrupt leader of a hostile power?

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• ‟ To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

  - Masha Gessen