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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.

Madeleine Albright

McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
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.
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Election Experience Search Word
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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Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
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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Myself Peace People Reading Thinking War Worry
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Emotional Hate Policy
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
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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Creation Difficult Effort Myself Need Team Thinking View
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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Easy Leadership Pain
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
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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Brave Courage Dealing Herself Make Up Result Talk Woman
There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hell Help Place Support Woman

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