Eva

“The age of pretending not to see the victim is over. This is the era of gawping at the oppressed and having a good laugh about it, even when the oppressor hasn't actually called for you to do so.”
― Ece Temelkuran, How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship

“during the 8 years of his second term as prime minister, by supplying the unemployed with menial state-paid seasonal summer jobs designed by local government which took only a few hours a day, Orbán had lowered the unemployment rate from 11.4 to 3.8 per cent. This provided him with thousands of loyal supporters whose daily bread depended on his reelection.”
― 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

“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