The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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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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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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