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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.

Madeleine Albright

It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
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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Leadership People Right Strong Weakness Wrong
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Responsibility Right
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Force Time Voice
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Democracy Government
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
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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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
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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Brave Courage Dealing Herself Make Up Result Talk Woman
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Human Principle Respect Right
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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Mindset Myself Phone Remember
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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Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
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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Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race

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