Leadership Quotes

"The small landowner is the key to conservation—he can think in terms of his own land and community."

"Leadership is the ability to bear the weight of decision."

"The native intellectual who takes up arms to defend his nation is to be looked upon as a forechosen of national culture."

"Behind this National Bourgeoisie is a young, spirited, modernizing bourgeoisie which cares little for the old forms of administration."

"The intellectual vocation is to serve the people."

"The pharmacist, the doctor, or the magistrate are not appointed to educate the people."

"Economic independence must follow political independence."

"This is our responsibility, and our role is to act as midwife to this new world."

"The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as well as for, a public."

"To be a public intellectual is to accept certain responsibilities and certain costs."

"The intellectual cannot be neutral; neutrality itself is a political position."

"The intellectual's vocation is to tell the truth as far as one can perceive it."

"The intellectual speaks to the world while also remaining accountable to principles."

"Leadership means creating conditions for others' liberation."

"The role of the intellectual is not to tell others what they should think."

"Leadership is not about power over others but power with them."

"Leadership emerges from authenticity."

"Leadership is the ability to disappoint people in the right way."

"Leaders are those who can articulate our silent desperation."

"The intellectual's responsibility is not to represent others, but to clear space for their representation."

"The intellectual's task is to make the invisible visible, the silenced audible."

"The postcolonial intellectual must navigate between complicity and critique."

"Authority exists only where obedience is granted."

"Leadership is the courage to question what followers accept."

"One must think what it means to be responsible without knowing what one is responding to."

"The intellectual is always, in one way or another, a voice of resistance and opposition"

"The critic must be simultaneously inside and outside"

"The intellectual must maintain critical distance"

"The intellectual is an intermediary between the nation and its leadership."

"Transversality challenges the vertical hierarchies of traditional institutions."