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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Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
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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 feel like sometimes I'm so positive and sometimes I think the worst of everything or I think the worst is going to happen. It's how I deal with stuff day-to-day, it's just how I get by really, and it's probably not the best way to be.
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No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
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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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The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.
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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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Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
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We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal with directly.
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But right now, we are seeing hundreds of leaders coming together. Many of them are people nobody had ever heard of. This organic organization will outlive any one charismatic figure.
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Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
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The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado.
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Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
