A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThis is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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 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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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