Quotes of: Political-leader Keyword

A man of politics writes about philosophy: it could be that his "true" philosophy should be looked for rather in his writings on politics. In every personality there is one dominant and predominant activity: it is here that his thought must be looked...

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.

The Social Media Mind: How social media how social media is changing business, politics and science and helps create a new world order.

Moralistic culture views government as a positive force, one that values the individual but functions to the benefit of the general public. Discussion of public issues and voting are not only rights but also opportunities to better the individual and...

Texas Politics Today, 2011-2012 Edition

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth maki...

Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

To most of the general public, language comes down less to wonder than a rather censorious bifurcated sentiment – namely, that the vast majority of the world's humans either speak and something primitive or speak something badly.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

I turned on Fox News and jumped when I saw that they had one of those things in their studio. "Are you people crazy?" I screamed at the television. "Get out of there. Somebody shoot it!" Then I realized I was watching Special Report and had mistaken ...

Zombie Apocalypse 2012: A Political Horror Story

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one mus...

Martin Luther King Jr.

Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women understand capitalism–how it works as a system that exploits female labor and its interconnecti...

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Many professionals have to sign gagging clauses or face the sack if they speak out. The social worker and therapist was familiar with the scare that revelation brings to the survivor. […] We are in this story. It isn't ours, but we are in it noneth...

Stolen Voices: The People And Politics Behind The Campaign To Discredit Childhood Testimony

Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks - serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere. Oil shocks have two causes. The first is natural, be...

Albert Marrin

Graciousness in serving and being served marks the lives of leaders who have made the largest impact on my life.

Equipping Church, The

Change or you will be changed: leaders who neglect the good of their people will be forsaken. Leadership is a service, not a gateway to privilege.

Flashes of Thought

...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Those thinking Why, When, Where, Who are information providers; the one thinking “HOW” is the leader in solving the problem.

GWG

a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.

The Black Banner

Confidence is being scared to death but getting the job done anyway.

Becoming The Fulfilled Leader

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

Being and Nothingness

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

Zig Ziglar

People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.

Howard Dean

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

Felix Dennis