I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
Oriana FallaciRead
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
Interpretation
Effective leadership requires knowledge and competency.
Oriana Fallaci emphasizes the crucial importance of intelligence and understanding in governance and administration. Without capable and informed individuals at the helm, it is impossible to lead effectively or make sound decisions that benefit society.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the qualities of a good leader.
I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.
Now from a distance, I look back on what the Corps taught me: to think like men of action, and to act like men of thought!
You turn if you want to. The Lady's not for turning.
To lead yourself, use your head; to lead others, use your heart. Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.
To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.
The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it.
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