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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTPeace is not a spectator sport.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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