The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

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

To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

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

"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.