Elliot A. Cohen Quotes

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

There are things more important than peace.

… right is more precious than peace.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

What's missing from the world is a sense of direction.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

I think purpose is the most important thing because once you understand that, everything else becomes easy.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

The best power of all is to be free, but Obama is not a free person. He is a prisoner of a military system. He talked about closing Guantanamo and ending the war in Iraq. Now he's taken on another war. What's happening?

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen.

Leadership is working with goals and vision; management is working with objectives.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.