“Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.”

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This frames a political judgment as criticism of blind conviction rather than personal cruelty. It can be read as saying that the deeper problem was not malice, but an inability, or refusal, to register the harm caused by an ideological program. The line lands in debates about policy, where good intentions can still produce damaging results for people left out by them.

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Originally said in English.

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