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Leaders Quotes by Stephen Kinzer
- Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
- The idea that Arabia is best run by Arabs is no more palatable to Western leaders today than it was to Napoleon or Churchill.
- After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.
- One of the most perplexing political questions of the late 20th century is how new democracies should punish deposed dictators and their associates. Victims cry…
- As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.
- In the 1980s, the U.S. Army invaded two Caribbean countries, Grenada and Panama, to depose leaders who had defied Washington.
- Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance,…
- Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great powers to destroy…
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- The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond. — Robert Baden-Powell
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- All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead… — Martha Beck
- Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. — Warren G. Bennis
- Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. — Warren G. Bennis
- Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line. — Warren G. Bennis