It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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 answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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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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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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 complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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