Quotes About Followers

Which leads to another question: When Matthew tells us that some of Jesus's followers doubted, does this undermine the story, or is this the exact kind of honesty that reflects how people actually are? When each of the Gospel writers includes the part about the women being witnesses, why risk it? What a strange thing to include knowing it would discredit their story, unless women actually were the first witnesses.

I hate to tell you this, but you are just stupid and eager and sincere enough to make the kind of officer that men love to follow into some silly predicament.

In the absence of Kerista, more sinister alternatives appeared such as the Manson family, in which each new female member was initiated by an LSD trip (or any other drug, including some weird ones, if acid wasn't available) during which Charlie cunnilinged her to orgasm several times. After that experience, these girls – like Hasan i Sabbah's followers before them – were ready to follow any orders, including murder.

For what the leaders are, that, as a rule, will the men below them be. —Xenophon (430?–355? B.C.)

There have been mass delusions larger than this," I said, "following a fanatic leader.

I am not anyone to speak aloud of Adolf Hitler. His life and his actions do not invite sentimental emotions, because he was a warrior fighting for humanity, an apostle of the Gospel of the Rights of all peoples. He was a reformer of the highest rank. His historic destiny was to act in a time of unprecedented brutality, to which he eventually fell victim. So must any West European see Adolf Hitler. We, his followers, however, bow our heads before his disappearance.

No deity that ruled with fear and torment could win the hearts of its followers. They became animals themselves, thinking of baser and baser modes of worship until they threw their very infants to the flames. Only in Jesus was submission perfected, God made man. And through Jesus, man committed his heart to the only entity worthy of service—

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

No religion can be considered in abstraction from its followers, or even from its various types of followers.

After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.

Thou shalt not think that thou be a leader, merely because thee be having more than 0 followers.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

A leader creates a new way to success for followers and inspires them to follow him toward the ultimate purpose.

I'm a talker, but that doesn't necessarily make a leader.

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.

Effective Leaders transform weaknesses of their followers into strengths, enabling the followers to see and identify opportunity in every threat. Effective Leaders are not sweet talking, and they don't turn the organization into a Country Club; but they surely uplift the organization above the status quo, and importantly, expand the capability of their followers beyond the norm.