A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFirst of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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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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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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