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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFor the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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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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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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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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