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 ALBRIGHTUnless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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