A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTGood guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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 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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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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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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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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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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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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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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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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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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