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“Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.”

Should Leader Moral Morality Self Control Imposing

Book:Ferraro: My Story

Source: Ferraro: My Story

“Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it. With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality.”

States Facts Leader Moral Modern Honor Morality Notion Bounds Crowds Addresses Governors Realism Compelled Owing Moralist

Author:Julien Benda

“The threat of mutually assured destruction worked for the United States during the Cold War because it had proved its willingness to drop nuclear bombs on enemy cities at the end of World War II. It might work less well for Israel, because the Israeli Air Force has never deliberately targeted a large civilian population center, and its leaders have said its morality would not permit it do so.”

“... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.”

Self Individual Leadership Leader Moral Ought Morality Demand Respect Ethics Code Self Respect Conformity Ethics And Morals Code Of Ethics

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.”

Needs Helping Political Lying Sex Leader Rocks Morality Drug Indifference Hypocrisy Rock And Roll Political Leaders Callous Those In Need Sex Drugs Sex Drugs And Rock And Roll

Book:Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

Source: Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America

“We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.”

States Fall Leader Share Morality Ethics Aspiration Soviet Traps

Book:In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986

Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986