The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.

Madeleine Albright

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For 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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Destruction Enough Hide Nation Powerful Pretend Secure Weapon
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
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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Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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Act Faith Life Myself Success
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
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
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
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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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
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
I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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Mindset Myself Phone Remember
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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Democracy Government
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
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
To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Mess One Liner Reality World
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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Ideas Myself Thinking
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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Believe Myself Person Success Yourself
How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Compassionate Human Oneself World
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Difference Human Learning Myself Relationship
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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Democracy Freedom Magic Security
Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Carry Myself
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Character Reputation Yourself
Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Attitude Instagram Captions Life Philosophy
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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Government Herself Home
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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Development Myself Quite Silence Time Voice Women Empowerment
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Democracy Fight Freedom People Scare World

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