What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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 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 People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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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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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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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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