The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTFascism 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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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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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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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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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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