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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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 main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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