The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTAs a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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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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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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 People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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