Quotes

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“The very essence of leadership is [ that] you have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”

— Theodore Hesburgh

“All people should strive to learn before they die: what they are running from, and to, and why.”

— James Thurber

“Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.”

— Albert Einstein

“Anger closes the mind and cools the heart when both are need most”

— Anonymous

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize 1991, “Freedom From Fear” speech, which begins with the above quote.

“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.”

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986)

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”

— Nelson Mandela

“If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the US does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.”

— Robert Jackson, US Prosecutor at Nuremberg, 1946

“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”

— William McKnight, Former 3M CEO

“I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti-injustice, anti-oppression.”

— Naim Ateek, brother of Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town and chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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