A Quote by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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Born: November 11, 1929

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

Albert Camus

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

It's easy to deprecate some of the puffery and jingoism that often go with affirmations of 'American greatness.' It's also easy to confuse greatness with perfection, as if evidence of our shortcomings is proof of our mediocrity.

Bret Stephens

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

Oscar Wilde

Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different and in particular because of the colour of their skin, and I don't think there has been a time in Australian politics where there has been more attention to the importance of that value.

George Brandis

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.

Jonathan Haidt

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A. Powell Davies

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.

Oscar Wilde

Greatness is always envied - it is only mediocrity that can boast of a host of friends.

Marie Corelli

The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.

Nelson Boswell

In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

Robert Fritz

Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

James C. Collins

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

Keith Ferrazzi

You have to have a habitual vision of greatness ... you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won't confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won't confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity ... believe in fact that living is connected to giving.

Cornel West

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things.

James C. Collins

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

I. F. Stone

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