Quotes About Leaders

It was standard Roman policy to forge alliances with the landed aristocracy in every captured city, making them dependent on the Roman overlords for their power and wealth. By aligning their interests with those of the ruling class, Rome ensured that local leaders remained wholly vested in maintaining the imperial system

This is where Mr. Zemurray made the calls," she told me. "He sat in a chair right here, calling every leader in Central and South America, talking and explaining until he got enough of them to change their vote to make modern Israel a reality.

It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for 'natural' methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

The welfare state is perhaps the greatest altruistic system the animal kingdom has ever known. But any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it. Individual humans who have more children than they are capable of rearing are probably too ignorant in most cases to be accused of conscious malevolent exploitation. Powerful institutions and leaders who deliberately encourage them to do so seem to me less free from suspicion.

Whenever a controversy arises over sexual or reproductive morals, you can bet that religious leaders from several different faith groups will be prominently represented on influential committees, or on panel discussions on radio or television.

Lenin found music depressing. Stalin thought he understood and appreciated music. Khrushchev despised music. Which is the worst for a composer?

Religious leaders should keep to religion. If they interfere in politics, it spells doom for religion as well as for the kingdom.

the blustery talk of civic leaders—and not Chicago's weather—had inspired the "Windy City" moniker.

Violence begets violence, and then you get leaders who are violent men. And you don't want that.

I not only think that they (U.S. leaders) are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

You cannot compare any leaders in America to what Vladimir Putin has done. This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people.

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.

Israelis do not need to be lectured about the importance of peace by foreign leaders.

The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.

Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.

Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.

There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.