Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Leaders play a unique role in periods of crisis and chaos. Because if you don't, you're not going to harness the power of all the people behind you.
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.
Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.
All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
Leaders lead. They don't divide; they don't create a climate that is poisonous.
A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
I have seen how leaders rule by intimidation. Leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people often do so because they have nothing else to offer. And I have seen how places that stifle the voices and dismiss the potential of their citizens are diminished: how they are less vital, less hopeful, less free.
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