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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTGood 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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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 voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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