Allowing Russians to vote in free elections, thought Ilyin, was like allowing embryos to choose their species
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Fascism begins not with an assessment of what is within, but from a rejection of what is without.
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May your prayer be a sword and your sword be a prayer!”
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To speak of Ukraine was to be a mortal enemy of Russia. Ilyin took for granted that a post-Soviet Russia would include Ukraine
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The nation, “pure and objective,” was what the philosopher saw when he blinded himself
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more. Life is nasty, brutish, and short; the pleasure of life is that it can be made nastier, more brutish, and shorter for others
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Our very individuality only proves that the world is flawed: “the empirical fragmentation of human existence is an incorrect, a transitory, and a metaphysically untrue condition of the world.”
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According to Ilyin, communism had been inflicted upon innocent Russia by the decadent West
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If we wish to have a better account of good and evil, we will have to resuscitate history
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Europeans and Americans wasted time by asking whether an invasion had taken place, whether Ukraine was a country, and whether it had somehow deserved to be invaded. This revealed a capacious vulnerability that Russia soon exploited within the European Union and the United States