Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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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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