This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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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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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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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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For 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.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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