It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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