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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIf 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?
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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