"A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob."

-- Frank Herbert

#People Quotes #Leader Quotes #Levels Quotes

“To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.”
“Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions.”
“I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.”
“If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.”
“American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.”
“Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their desires and beliefs. Only we can understand and respond to reasons.”
“Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, 2004, May 11, 1946.
“It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.”

Source : Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.29, Algonquin Books

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