Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was a British philosopher, writer and essayist. He professed the romantic “cult of heroes” - exceptional individuals like Napoleon, who through their deeds fulfill divine destiny and move humanity forward, rising above the crowd of limited ordinary people. It is no coincidence that one of the sections of Carlyle’s book was called “People and Heroes,” and in others he prescribed life rules for a society existing on similar principles. Manuel Sarkisyants (1923–2015) was a German sociologist, political scientist and historian, Armenian by nationality. Sarkisyants considered the theory of “great personalities”, “supermans” as the ideological basis of Nazism, and he considered Thomas Carlyle to be the ideological inspirer of the Nazis, along with Nietzsche. The collection presents the works of Carlyle, Sarkisyants and other famous philosophers devoted to the topic of “leadership.”