Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFor 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 complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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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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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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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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