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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThere is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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 also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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 conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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