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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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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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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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