Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIn 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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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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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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