Unlike great thinkers and great artists the most effective political leaders must often yield to public
As the symbol of modern society, democracy has been improved greatly since feudalist period, and the improvement endows thinkers and artists right to stick to their own minds, and forces political leaders to yield to public opinions. ... Great thinkers and great artists are entitled this right to assure that the most original and creative ideas flow like rivers--rushing passionately past boulders and waterfalls. ... As far as I know, those thinkers and artists nowadays are always self-opinioned, such as Floyd, Picasso, Miro and so on. ... That is artists persistent. However, political leaders are not as free as those artists and thinkers, because political principle is to abandon principle for the sake of compromising.