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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFascism 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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 reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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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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