It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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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.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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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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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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