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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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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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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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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