It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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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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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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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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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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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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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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 do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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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 more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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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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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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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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