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is a historically justified strategy of the working class to demonstrate their will and strength. It enabled them to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties.

Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able thereby to break the political will of the intelligentsia, pacify the professional man of various categories and work, and gradually subordinate them to its own aims within the field of their specialties. Leon Trotsky

is intellectual, it happens in your mind.

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind. Stephen King

is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice... it is therefore an emanation of virtue. It is less a special principle than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most pressing needs.

If the mainspring of popular government in peacetime is virtue, amid revolution it is at the same time virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal... terror, without which virtue is impotent. Terror is nothing but prompt, severe, inflexible justice... it is therefore an emanation of virtue. It is less a special principle than a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most pressing needs.'

is the easiest way to gain control of the population. The public clamors for such laws if their personal security is threatened.

The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their personal security is threatened. Joseph Stalin

is more effective in what is hinted at or guessed at than in that which is clearly known.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed. Arthur Conan Doyle

is that which might be justified by history if the marxist ideal driving it is realized.

terror might be justified by history if the Marxist ideal were realized by the Soviet Union.

is the essence of totalitarian domination.

terror is the essence of totalitarian domination', and the concentration camp is 'the true central institution of totalitarian organizational power' (Arendt 1958: 464, 438).

, once it has grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.

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