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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIf 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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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.
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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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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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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