It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIt took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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