Peace is not a spectator sport.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFascism, 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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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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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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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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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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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