Anatomy Of An Alibi Quotes

You were forthcoming, articulate, and gave the details. You're alibied up to your gonads--Oh, sorry." "Not a problem, I like knowing that part of my anatomy is protected.

But I can also admit I’m looking at this through the eyes of a friend

The most self-consciously visual of all political forms, fascism presents itself to us in vivid primary images: a chauvinist demagogue haranguing an ecstatic crowd; disciplined ranks of marching youths; colored-shirted militants beating up members of some demonized minority; surprise invasions at dawn; and fit soldiers parading through a captured city. Examined more closely, however, some of these familiar images induce facile errors. The image of the all-powerful dictator personalizes fascism, and creates the false impression that we can understand it fully by scrutinizing the leader alone. This image, whose power lingers today, is the last triumph of fascist propagandists. It offers an alibi to nations that approved or tolerated fascist leaders, and diverts attention from the persons, groups, and institutions who helped him. We need a subtler model of fascism that explores the interaction between Leader and Nation, and between Party and civil society.

Today, religion in the empirical sense—the word and the thing—is more and more the recourse of the reactionary, the resentful, the undereducated, the anti-scientific, an alibi for white supremacism and sexism, packing its guns, standing its ground against immigrants and people who look different, instead of welcoming “the widow, the orphan, and the stranger,” as the prophets enjoin.

The dual state model is incomplete in yet one more crucial dimension: it leaves out public opinion. It is not enough to study the way a fascist regime exerted its authority from above; one must also explore how it interacted with its public. Did a majority of the population support fascist regimes consensually, even with enthusiasm, or were they bent to submission by force and terror? The terror model has prevailed, partly because it serves as an alibi for the peoples concerned. But recent scholarship has tended to show that terror was selective and that consensus was high in both Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Neither regime was conceivable without terror. Nazi violence was omnipresent and highly visible after 1933. The concentration camps were not hidden, and executions of dissidents were meant to be known. The publicity of Nazi violence does not mean that support for the regime was coerced, however. Since the violence was directed at Jews, Marxists, and “asocial” outsiders (homosexuals, Gypsies, pacifists, the congenitally insane or crippled, and habitual criminals—groups that many Germans were often happy to see the last of ), Germans often felt more gratified than threatened by it. The rest soon learned to keep silent. Only at the end, as the Allies and the Russians closed in, when the authorities attacked anyone accused of giving in, did the Nazi regime turn its violence upon ordinary Germans.

Does he also think it convenient she’s ready with a stack of receipts? It’s almost as if she spent yesterday preparing for the alibi she’d need today.

This fucking firm was built on backdoor deals. Please tell me you don’t believe a kid fresh out of law school won Representative Wells’s case on his own

It sat like a pebble in the pit of my stomach. Small enough to brush off at the beginning

button-down,

Tuition paid in full at Tulane

You mean the video that shows you were driving Paul Granger’s truck that night and not Silas? The video that proves you killed them but let my brother believe he was a murderer all these years?

I had been conditioned at an early age to believe that if someone provided you a nice life then they were owed the right to make every decision as to how you lived it.

Fair is where they sell cotton candy.