there is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country if you are president the trouble happens to you but if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Rulers choose where trouble falls: a president faces it, a tyrant shifts it to others.
- In plain terms
- Presidents take the trouble, tyrants give it to others.
- What can you take from it?
- Leadership determines who suffers from societal trouble.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who should take the trouble?
- Is power inherently selfish?
Another view
Presidents can also shift trouble through manipulation.
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