The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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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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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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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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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.
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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.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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