James MacGregor Burns

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.