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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle.

— Dorothy Thompson The Courage to Be Happy (1957)

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No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship.

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

Let the Record Speak (1939)

Unity, in Fascist terms, means uniformity; freedom of conscience means insubordination; co-ordination means coercion.

Let the Record Speak (1939)

Patriotism is the cheapest form of self-exaltation.

I Saw Hitler (1932)

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