Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWhat people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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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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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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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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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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