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James MacGregor Burns Quotes
Page 1 of 1James MacGregor Burns
August 3, 1918 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author
|  In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. | | A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. | | Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. | | Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. | | Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. |
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