Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTEspecially 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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 voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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 conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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