As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTRepeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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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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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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