First Sentence

"By fascism, I mean a philosophy of totalities and perfection and a way of thinking in certainties and absolutes, powerful intolerance for any differences of ideas, demands for conformity to the certainties and often a cultivation of mindlessness or no thinking or questioning; taking a position of superiority over others who do not believe or cannot qualify for full membership in the fraternity of believers, and the cultivation of cults of power even among the believers; a readiness, in fact often a love for doing violence and harm to all who are defined as nonbelievers or enemies of the certainty; and in the end denials of having done any harm to life - one's own or others."