Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTA spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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