This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTHow can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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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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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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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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