While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTPeace is not a spectator sport.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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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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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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 we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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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 real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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