It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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.
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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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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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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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