"In countries where innocent people are dying,..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
More by Nelson Mandela
“There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.”
“At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.”
“Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way.”
More on Leadership
“John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.”
“As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.”
“All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.”
More on Conflict
“I have never believed that war settled anything satisfactorily, but I am not entirely sure that some times there are certain situations in the world such as we have in actuality when a country is worse off when it does not go to war for its principles than if it went to war.”
“There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.”
“We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.”