A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTBill 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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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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In 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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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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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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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