...the wars and revolutions of our time have been made possible not so much by a few leaders or sects as by the multitude of passive citizens who smugly thought that politics was the responsibility of statesmen.
-- Fritz Stern, The Failure of Illiberalism:
Essays on the Political Culture of Modern Germany
[New York: Knopf, 1972, p. 146]
Essays on the Political Culture of Modern Germany
[New York: Knopf, 1972, p. 146]
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