Masha Gessen : (3)

" There’s nothing effective against Trump. Trump is Trump. Trump is going to lie. Trump is going to act the way he’s acting. No amount of reason, no amount of criticism, no amount of anything is going to work to change Trump’s behavior. Putin is exactly the same way. " - Masha Gessen

" Abstracted hatred is incredibly potent. There’s never the risk of having it challenged by the reality of living human beings. " - Masha Gessen

" The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of making learning impossible, replacing facts with mush, and handing the faceless state a monopoly on defining an ever-shifting reality. " - Masha Gessen