What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWhat people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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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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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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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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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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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