Lee Ellis quote — “Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover u…”

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Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into the shadows and hope that the crisis — whatever it is — will somehow blow over instead of facing their fears. Worse, they resort to lies and deception to cover up the truth.

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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. Inst…

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers …

Edmund Burke