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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?

Madeleine Albright

There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Hell Help Place Support Woman
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 ALBRIGHT

Easy Leadership Pain
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Human Principle Respect Right
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Character Reputation Yourself
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Determination Goodness Win
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Human Responsibility Right
A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Career Himself Vote
I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Hell Help Important Myself Place Thinking Woman Woman Empowerment
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Force Time Voice
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Difference Human Learning Myself Relationship
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Brave Courage Dealing Herself Make Up Result Talk Woman
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Leadership Oppression Promise
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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Force Future Nation
The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Beginning Human Issue

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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