Leadership Abuse Quotes

Poor leaders motivate those following them with false promises of promotions, success, and a great tomorrow but rarely deliver on those promises. Leaders who do this can be manipulative and often hold the goals and aspirations of their followers hostage in order to get them to comply.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

The chief bandit is the head of the state himself.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

Are we diminishing the bully pulpit to a pulpit of bull?

Something to keep in mind, whether you adore Obama or Trump: Drooling toadyism is not a good look on either side, and it paves the way for evil. Because while hate can drive people to do many things, love permits leaders to do all things - none of them good.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.

Martyrdom of followers is a strategy of political leaders to grab money and power.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.

If you are required to kill someone today, on the promise of a political leader that someone else shall live in peace tomorrow, believe me, you are not only a double murderer, you are a suicide, too.

A king, from being a father to his people, degenerates into a tyrant, and forfeits all right to obedience.

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

I want to leave UMNO because it is no longer UMNO. It is a party dedicated to supporting Mr. Najib, to protecting Mr. Najib, to upholding whatever it is that he does, including some of the wrong things that he has done. I cannot be a member of such a party.

Management is the set of skills that can help get things done. Unfortunately, its practice is too often a bag of manipulative tricks to advance someone's own interests, which creates cynicism.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

Politics is often monopolized by political leaders … and when it is, things do not always go the right way for the people.

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.