Politics Quote by James MacGregor Burns Download Open image ““Politics seemed to have fallen to a new wartime low of spite and pettiness.”” — James MacGregor Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Low Spite New Wartime Politics Politics Fallen Spite Pettiness Wartime Low
“It seemed as if many times in history, when things were not so good economically or politically, the political class turned to war as… — William Struse Copy Share Image
“It is vital that we not be made to seem wholly helpless in the opening moments of the war. Once a nation ceases to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, the less clear… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I have seen something of the horrors of war, and much too much of the worse horrors of peace.” — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Is it any wonder that war is senseless? It’s started by politicians. As a class, politicians have no class, and even less sense.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Relax now. That’s the beauty of war. Utter subservience to one’s leaders absolves a soldier of the consequences of her actions.” — Alan Campbell Copy Share Image
“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to their present-day… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“He tried not to think what he knew--that war is treachery and hatred, the muddling of incompetent generals, the torture and killing and sickness… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“That's the attractive thing about war. Absolutely everything gets a little something” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
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… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“equal, hierarchical, or unrelated? These relationships also define the exercise of power as a collective act. A psychological” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“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… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
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… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
“The global population of Earth are involved in the following corporate government experiments: The long term effects of - 1. Nuclear bomb fallout radiation.… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
“Jim Reston: Walking through the crowds of air-kissing politicians, actors and high fliers, it was tough to tell where the politics stopped and the… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
