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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWhile democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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 was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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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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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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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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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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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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