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“We have also failed to grasp the fact that understanding requires action. If we are not politically active or reactive, then the act of understanding turns into only the expression and exchange of emotional responses.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“Pretending to have fun on such a massive scale is just a manifestation of our lost capacity to experience joy.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“Whatever the answer is, it ought to be clear to all of us that it does not include the luxury of not taking action, namely political action. our concept of Joy should be redefined to understand the collective action does not only make for a better world, but a fulfilled individual.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“Every regime, without exception, starts building it's ideal citizen by tampering with its women. It takes a whole generation to create a new man, but redesigning women, so they believe, is an overnight job.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship