Quotes of: Political-leaders Keyword

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

Stephen Kinzer

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a lead...

Hakeem Olajuwon

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

Alan Greenspan

True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.

Amit Kalantri

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Azim Premji

A leader is a planter—a planter of ideas, seeds of change, and a vision for justice

Artika Tyner

The leader is always learning new things and gaining new insights.

Artika Tyner

Many men may see the King in a Kid but it takes a true leader to nurture it

Bernard Kelvin Clive

I believe a leader is inspired by his/her team to lead them.

Unarine Ramaru

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

Warren G. Bennis

Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

Warren Farrell

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

Mo Ibrahim

Let us applaud the howls of the ignorant extremists as we stand on a knife-edge, not glad, but in acknowledgement of the bad, sad, mad gifts that the regime continue to offer us.

The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

Do you know the one about how politics is show business for the ugly? State politics is show business for ugly people who can't remember their lines.

The Fracking King: A Novel

Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort.

The Great Wall of Silence: The Silent Political Takeover of the United States

[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition

Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence on the enemy,while confusing the true class contradictions between ourselves and the enemy.

Message To The Black Movement: A Political Statement From The Black Underground