What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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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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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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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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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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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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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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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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 People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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 Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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