Foolish Leadership Quotes

To the fool-king belongs the world.

… a dunderhead who has no more brains than a post, and who is as vicious as he is foolish, should command a great many wise and good men, simply because he happens to have a big pile of gold coins.

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.

But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.

There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.