Acts of violence Quote by James MacGregor Burns

“A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.” quote by James MacGregor Burns — Download Open image

“A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.”

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Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions…

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“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to controul the abuses of government. But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels,…

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Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can…

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"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence…

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In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like…

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The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

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“equal, hierarchical, or unrelated? These relationships also define the exercise of power as a collective act. A psychological”

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To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable…

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“above all, Locke’s transforming idea that government was established and maintained by the consent of the governed, in which all men had an equal…

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Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

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Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and…

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“Politics seemed to have fallen to a new wartime low of spite and pettiness.”

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The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose…

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“He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep sound at night? Did it make them happy? Or are they just in for the attention? Have they nothing to lose? Or are they simply bored and spit balling issues that have always been there? Can…

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