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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIf 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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Fascism 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.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.
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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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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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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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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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