A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThere is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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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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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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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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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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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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