"...their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to the nation at large. Intimidation and propaganda work in a duet of oppression, while the people, lapped in fear and distrust, learn to dissemble and to keep silent."
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Ronald J. Terchek, Thomas C. Conte in: Theories of Democracy: A Reader, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 31 July 2000, p. 301.
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Intimidation
(also called cowing) is intentional behavior that would cause a person of ordinary sensibilities fear of injury or harm. It is not necessary to prove that the behavior was so violent as to cause terror or that the victim was actually frightened. Criminal threatening (or threatening behavior) is the crime of intentionally or knowingly putting another person in fear of imminent bodily injury.
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