A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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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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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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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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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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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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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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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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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