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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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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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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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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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