The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWell, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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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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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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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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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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