Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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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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I 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.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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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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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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