Madeleine Albright on greatness
Madeleine Albright73 quotes“The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.”
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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright 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 AlbrightMadeleine Albright I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright 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.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
Madeleine AlbrightMadeleine Albright 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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