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Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will -- Jerry Bridges
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. -- Aristotle
The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. -- Felix Frankfurter
Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.] -- Tacitus
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. -- Elias Canetti
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. -- Thomas Jefferson
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. -- Ambrose Bierce
The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches. -- Nizar Qabbani
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not. -- James Madison
In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally the age When rulers are hated. -- Laozi
Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it. -- Ai Weiwei
Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law. -- Ludwig von Mises
Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, -- a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field... -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine the prerogatives of absolute power with the moral authority that comes from popular assent. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others. -- George Washington
Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter. -- Ayn Rand
The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. -- John Adams
What luck for rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. -- Jan Masaryk
The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. -- Sun Tzu
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. -- Denis Waitley
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. -- Aristotle
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. -- Seneca the Younger
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. -- Samuel Lover
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. -- Seneca the Younger
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him. -- Cardinal Richelieu
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. -- William Beveridge
If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands. -- Aristotle
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. -- Thomas Jefferson
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. -- Thomas Jefferson
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. -- Walt Whitman
You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers. -- Herman Gorter
The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people. -- Meir Kahane
God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your TV. I feel like it's this energy. God is energy, love is energy. -- Kendrick Lamar
Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong. -- Jarvis Cocker
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. -- Lester B. Pearson
If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. -- Alfred Korzybski
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. -- Nikita Khrushchev
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them. -- Patrick Henry
The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. -- William Beveridge
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you. -- Julian Assange
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. -- John Boyd Orr
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. -- Henry Knox
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. -- Plato
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs. -- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II
Of course, women have long exercised influence behind the scenes. A few thousand years ago this drove Aristotle to distraction: 'What difference does it make whether women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same.' -- Stacy Schiff
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands. -- Plato
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws, hammers, chisels, files and rulers. It all dealt with conciseness and precision. It eliminated guesswork. One has to know his tools, so he doesn't work against himself. -- Yusef Komunyakaa
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects. -- F. Sionil Jose
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives. -- Geoff Mulgan
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely. -- Steven Pinker
God is the one who chooses our rulers -- Katherine Harris
Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers. -- Thomas Aquinas
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. -- Thomas Jefferson
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers. -- Thomas Hodgskin
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power. -- Will Durant
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes -- Jan Masaryk
It is the responsibility of good people to rise against bad rulers. -- Abram Gitspof
RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung. -- Pete Seeger
Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers. -- Aristotle
The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers. -- Zygmunt Bauman
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers. -- John Calvin
The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects. -- Laozi
The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world. -- Saddam Hussein
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. -- Plato
We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us. -- Dhirubhai Ambani
Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers. -- Ibn Khaldun
People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve. -- Laozi
Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious. -- Laozi
I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers. -- Gore Vidal
God is all powerful.God is mighty.God is has power over all rulers and authorities. -- Laillah Gifty Akita
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. -- Herodotus
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. -- Benjamin Franklin
Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn't look at coming changes. -- Stanley Druckenmiller
Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it. -- Kool Moe Dee
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. -- Thomas Jefferson
The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. -- Chris Hedges
We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. -- Edward Snowden
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. -- Taylor Caldwell
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. -- George Orwell
The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. -- James Bovard
It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters. -- Ludwig von Mises
China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation. -- L. Ron Hubbard
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. -- Martin Luther
The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble. -- Michael Ondaatje
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief. -- Mahatma Gandhi
She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers! -- Corey Taylor
People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern. -- Laozi
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think). -- Adolf Hitler
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic. -- Chinua Achebe
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it. -- Henry David Thoreau
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers. -- Muhammad Ali
Atomism had no absolute 'above' and 'below' and no such rulers, so favoured the undersranding of justice as an agreement amongst equals. -- Catherine Wilson
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them. -- Terry Eagleton
Put a glance all around and you will see that the slaves of the United States are either rulers or enemies of Muslims. -- Osama bin Laden
Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly. -- Laozi
.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition. -- Aristotle
People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains. -- Christopher Hitchens
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses. -- Leo Tolstoy
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets. -- Khaled Hosseini
The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised. -- Laozi
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands -- Pico Iyer
For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands. -- Pico Iyer
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion. -- Dalai Lama
Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur'an to support their views and misleading rulers. -- Umar
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice. -- Anthony Lewis
All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable. -- Norman Thomas
Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say? -- VanillaCreamPie8888

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