Stephen Kinzer Quotes
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.
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I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.
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Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.
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I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively andnonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.
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The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.
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For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.
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"We die," she said, "we die together. That's the deal."
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Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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Youth deals only in extremes.
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If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.
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The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency.
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How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).
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It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
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I went to India as a missionary to save England from spiritual collapse.
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DEAL is a most villainous place. It is full of filthy-looking people.Great desolationof abomination has beengoing on here.
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Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.
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I always liked different things, rare things.
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On my own, I couldn't silence my fear, but with God's presence I could push past it.
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Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can't wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.
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Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
