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.
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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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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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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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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