Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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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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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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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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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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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 conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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