LEADERS: GOOD & BAD
Whom the mad would destroy, they first make gods.
Bernard Levin
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
Aristotle
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
Benazir Bhutto
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Hesiod
Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief.
Jonathan Mayhew
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
T. H. Huxley
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
Mohandas Gandhi
You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cant fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Ed Murrow
The glory of great men should always be measured against the means they used to acquire it.
Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
The Bible (Luke 6:27)
Nobody rules safely but he who has learned well how to obey.
Thomas a Kempis
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
Bernard Montgomery
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
Bernard Levin
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
Aristotle
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.
Benazir Bhutto
The man who does evil to another does evil to himself, and the evil counsel is most evil for him who counsels it.
Hesiod
Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief.
Jonathan Mayhew
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
T. H. Huxley
One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.
Mohandas Gandhi
You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cant fool all of the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Ed Murrow
The glory of great men should always be measured against the means they used to acquire it.
Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!
The Bible (Luke 6:27)
Nobody rules safely but he who has learned well how to obey.
Thomas a Kempis
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
Bernard Montgomery
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann