The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTTo 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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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 do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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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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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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 voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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