A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTAs 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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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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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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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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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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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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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