#go

Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#christianity #gods #jealousy #religion #romans

There's more to people than some defined label," said Arcie. "There are more than straight good and evil, aye, even more than law or disorders or fence-sittin. There's prejudice, whimsey, affection, superstition, habit, upbringing, alliance, pride, society, morals, animosity, preference, values, religion, circumstance, humor, perversity, honor, vengeance, jealousy, frustration...hundreds o' factors, from the past and in every present moment, as decides what some one person'll do in an individious situation. ↗

— Eve Forward

#good #good-vs-evil #morality #jealousy

A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them. ↗

— M.D. Arnold

#leadership #leadership

When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary delusion in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. Instances might be cited in which a conduct of this kind has saved the people from very fatal consequences of their own mistakes, and has procured lasting monuments of their gratitude to the men who had courage and magnanimity enough to serve them at the peril of their displeasure. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#government-leadership #courage

The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy. ↗

— Max McKeown

#goals #innovation #leadership #management-and-leadership #risk

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [On Water] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#government #leadership #peace #responsibility #shipwreck

Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results. ↗

— Spock

#government-corruption #organizational-leadership #leadership

The challenge has always been that "good people" don't know how to win elections ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#government #leadership #politics #leadership

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over. ↗

— Nicole Sobon

#letting-go #life #moving-on #start-over #life

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance. ↗

— Arthur J. Russell

#life #truth #wisdom #life