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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFascism, 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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 Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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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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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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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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 main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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