The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFirst of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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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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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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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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