Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe 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 real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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How 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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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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