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 ALBRIGHTFascism 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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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 temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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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.
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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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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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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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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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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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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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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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