#mina

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#central #contradiction #dominant #each #historical

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#african #against #attention #basic #discrimination

I'm the C.E.O., nominated by the shareholders. If they're not happy, I have to take the consequences. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#happy #i #nominated #shareholders #take

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray! ↗

— Alberto Giacometti

#another #color #course #doing #eliminated

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#attack #criminals #family #get #i

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#executive #free #legislative #lost #nominated

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#classic #conductor #conductors #eliminates #him

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#balance #change #class #contributing #determination

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play. ↗

— Joe Morton

#certain #determination #i #made #many

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#individuality #self-determination #soul