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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTDecades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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