Emily Pritty

“Falsehood flies,” observed Jonathan Swift, “and the truth comes limping after it.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning

“I reckon it takes ten years to change a country. And that is ten years of focused change-making. At a minimum. Fifteen is better and twenty optimum.”
― Tony Blair, On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century

“It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves.”
― Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

“When we awaken each morning, we see around the globe what appear to be Fascism’s early stirrings: the discrediting of mainstream politicians, the emergence of leaders who seek to divide rather than to unite, the pursuit of political victory at all costs, and the invocation of national greatness by people who seem to possess only a warped concept of what greatness means. Most often, the signposts that should alert us are disguised: the altered constitution that passes for reform, the attacks on a free press justified by security, the dehumanization of others masked as a defense of virtue, or the hollowing out of a democratic system so that all is erased but the label.”
― Madeleine K. Albright, Fascism: A Warning