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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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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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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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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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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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