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Quotes About Leadership

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
~ Edmund Burke
It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.
~ Pat Robertson
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
~ Bob Riley
It is time for free nations to stop ignoring or even normalizing tyranny. Not only is it the right thing to do - but it's also the only way to stand up for our national security and the safety of the Canadian people.
~ Erin O'Toole
Democracy just isn't working any more; without sanity at its heart, it is becoming a most unique and fiendish tyranny.
~ Michael Leunig
According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.
~ Ayman Odeh
A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.
~ Alessandra Mussolini
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
~ Dennis Prager
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
~ Aristotle
I'm a tyrant that you should trust, and you should let me run your life, because I do know what is best for you.
~ Vermin Supreme
There are those who think that in order to get respect you have to be some sort of tyrant or overly authoritative. You can be fair to people.
~ Gianfranco Zola
If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
~ Lord Byron
It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.
~ John Avlon
I'm going to show the world that I'm not a tyrant, much less a devil.
~ Hugo Chavez
I shout at people... I am told that I'm a tyrant, but I still get things done, so that is fine.
~ David Tang
I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.
~ David Warner
My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I'm sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn't a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
~ Peter Marino
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
~ Demosthenes
The political lives of tyrants play out human affairs with a special intensity: the death of a democratic leader long after his retirement is a private matter, but the death of a tyrant is always a political act that reflects the character of his power.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
~ Michael Ledeen
If women were in charge of everything, there would be women tyrants. If black people were in charge, there would be black tyrants. If Hispanics were in charge, then Hispanic tyrants.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.
~ George Santayana
The only way to tyrantproof the presidency is not to elect tyrants to the presidency.
~ Benjamin Wittes
No, we are not tyrants on set, and we are kind of come at it very much as collaborators and not just with each other but everybody and particularly the actors.
~ Anna Boden