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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWhatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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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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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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