McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTTo reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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