Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIf 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?
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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 temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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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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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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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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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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