This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTA Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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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