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Letter "T" » Theodore H. White Quotes
«Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Leadership,
Mankind,
Power,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
burdened, enjoys, essence, forces, moved, moves, of the essence, outer, trapped
«To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dominant, Friends of, go against, heroism, perform
«A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
conservative, downhill, flows, in-between, pay for, uphill
«He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
destroyed, television
«If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Freedom,
Living,
Money
| Keywords:
be on, earn, planet
«The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| About:
Lies,
Listening,
Politicians,
Politics
| Keywords:
corner, exhausted, politician, street corner, stump, stumps
«Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.»
«The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.»
«I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.»
Author: Theodore H. White
(Historian, Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
alas, back burner, bubbling, burner, burners, chef, freezer, ignominiously, somewhat
«Politics in America is the binding secular religion.»
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