A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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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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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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 more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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I 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.
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