Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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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.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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