A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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 main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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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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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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