How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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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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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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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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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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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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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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