"Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality,"

-- James MacGregor Burns

#People Quotes #Principles Quotes #Levels Quotes

“Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.”
“You cannot say, because I am from Naples so I like the mixture of drama and comedy all together.”
“So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.”
“The most fun I've had on 'Burn Notice,' I think it would have to be working with China Chow and Lucy Lawless.”
“For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.”
“The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.”
“A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.”

Source : Thomas Osborne Davis (1865). “Literary and Historical Essays”, p.174
“Some smaller crimes always precede the great crimes.”

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