Bob Altemeyer Quotes
Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders cook up along themselves. It happens when the followers submit too much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do whatever they want--which is often something undemocratic, tyrannical and brutal.

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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.
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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 am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
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In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its 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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Leaders should be the chief repenters.
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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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Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
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Honored delegates, leaders of the world, I pretend for a living.
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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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Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'
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Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.
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I have been working very hard with your leaders and they have been working very hard to reach an agreement, ... grand government coalition.
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An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
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Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever.
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I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by Him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self-security... Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.
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We lost some really good senior leaders, so a lot of those new guys are going to have to step up and fill those roles.
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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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Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders cook up along themselves. It happens when the followers submit too much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do whatever they want--which is often something undemocratic, tyrannical and brutal.