In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal _ as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.
Politics: A Very Short Introduction
Quote Detail
Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal _ as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.
Quick Answer
What this quote page tells you
This canonical quote page keeps the full saying, the attributed author, any linked work, and the topic tags together so the quote can be cited from one stable URL.
Related Quotes
More quote cards from the same area
Through their discomforts Dom and Phil were missing everything of interest: the sudden strip marshes, the faces in the rock formations, the perfect lakes, the awesome måskoskårså valley grooved into the earth during the Ice Age, the golden eagle circling above it, and the views of a landscape it was impossible to believe existed in Europe.
Do I have to give you hair torture to get it out of y
Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first
I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?
Nothing is more egregious than greedy politicians.