The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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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 main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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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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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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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