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"Great massacres may be commanded by tyrants, but they are imposed by peoples.... Afterwards, when the mood has changed, or when the social pressure, thanks to the blood-letting, no longer exists, the anonymous people slinks away, leaving public responsibility to the preachers, the theorists, and the rulers who demanded, justified, and ordered the act." -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, on the European witch hunts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (From the Quotation Of The Day mailing list 2003-10-18, submitted there by Terry Labach.)