What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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 have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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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.
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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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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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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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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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