Command Quote by Tibor Fischer

Leaders are Readers

— Charles Jones

The literary culture, if you examine it, the high literary culture is that which preserves the government and you know it's really the talk…

— Kathy Acker

“Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.”

— Noam Chomsky

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere…

— Pankaj Mishra

Public conversations about who we are and who we want to be are key to the vitality of our democracy, and leaders can seed…

— Abhijit Banerjee

For a politician, the mans to power is paramount, and the ideology, in a way, can look after itself; I'm afraid a writer can't…

— David Hare

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

— Frank B. Kellogg

If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow…

— Laozi

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

— Nelson Mandela

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

— Charles de Gaulle

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders…

— Anonymous

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko