“We hear from time to time about horrible human rights atrocities happening around the globe. Our government claims that it stands in favor of human rights, and our leaders are in the news demanding consequences for other countries that are abusing their populations. But there is a huge denial about how widespread and common these kinds of atrocities are in the United States, and that we are not nearly as different from other countries as we would like to believe we are.” BelieveHumansKindChildrenDifferentCountryStatesGovernmentUnitedCommonLeaderUnited StatesRightsHugeNewsHappeningsConsequenceClaimsHuman RightsPopulationFavorsHorribleDenialOther CountriesGlobesAtrocities Author:Lundy Bancroft
“Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between nuclear powers are now too dangerous. We haven't had a nuclear war yet, have we? But all such arguments assume that the nuclear-armed nations are and always will be, without exception, rational actors, and that bouts of anger and revenge and madness will never overtake their leaders (or military and secret police officers in charge of nuclear weapons). In the century of Hitler and Stalin, this seems ingenuous.” WarSeemsActorsNationsSecretLeaderCenturyMilitaryDangerousHavensWeaponsConsequenceArgumentMadnessPoliceAssumingRevengeNuclearRationalBombsExceptionOfficersNuclear WeaponsWarfarePolice OfficerNuclear WarHydrogenNuclear PowerSecret PoliceHydrogen Bomb Author:Carl Sagan
“I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.” ThinkingNeedsFacesNationsChallengesLeaderWillingConsequenceEnormousRight ThingTelling The Truth Author:Ted Cruz
“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.” PeopleIfsWayLooksBlackLeaderCareersJudgingFindingsConsequenceBuiltPatternsAfrican AmericanRacistBlack PeopleConsistentlyDiminishLiving OnDegradeDividing Author:Joan Walsh Anglund
“When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.” YearsStillsWarLeaderConsequenceJuneIsraeli Author:Ismail Haniyeh
“A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.” PeopleActionLeaderForeverConsequenceProfound Book:An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change Source: An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change
“When leaders carry out policies for decades that have no consequences for the stated goal and are very costly, you have to ask whether they are telling you the truth or whether the policies are for a different goal, because they are not reducing drug use.” DifferentUseAsksGoalLeaderPolicyDrugConsequenceDecadesReducingDrug Use Author:Noam Chomsky
“I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow.” PeopleChildrenCountryHelpingAblePresidentAbilityLeaderPovertyBenefitsConsequenceSlaveryDollarsInvestmentAfrican AmericanProvidingCrowJim Crow Author:Barack Obama
“As matters now stand, the combination of genocide, as conventionally understood, and crimes against humanity, seems sufficient to cover the criminality of political leaders, and the lethal consequences of totalising ideologies.” MatterSeemsPoliticalHumanityLeaderCrimeUnderstoodConsequenceIdeologyCombinationSufficientGenocidePolitical LeadersCriminalityCrimes Against Humanity Author:Richard A. Falk
“Political leaders in Illinois kicked the can down the road, raised taxes, and ignored fiscal realities. Now, they're realizing the consequences of their actions: credit downgrades and negative outlooks.” RealityActionPoliticalRealizingLeaderTaxesConsequenceNegativeRaisedCreditIgnoredOutlookDown The RoadPolitical LeadersIllinois Author:Scott Walker
“Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.” ThinkingKindWarStatesFactsGovernmentInterestCommonLeaderClearWindRevolutionFoolSpeechConsequenceOpponentsFoundingGreat LeaderPartisansOratoryCommon Interests Book:A Soldier of the Great War Source: A Soldier of the Great War
“My point is that true leaders...understand the possible consequences of their decisions, and are willing to bear that weight. The question is whether that's a step you're willing to take." -Carlist Rieekan” DecisionLeaderStepsWillingBearsConsequenceWeightTrue Leader Author:Timothy Zahn
“Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.” IfsWantPersonsLeadershipLeaderOpinionShareConsequenceConfusionEach Day Author:Wayne Dyer