While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThere are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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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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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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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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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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