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If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.
— Haruki Murakami
Caution is a fine and worthy thing in any monarch, but a truly great ruler must also know when to take risks.
— Alex Rutherford
Give a man a centimeter and he'll think he's a ruler.
— Janet Skeslien Charles
There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.
— Paul J. Meyer
Asking about someone's animal is the shifter equivalent of pulling a ruler and asking a guy to whip it out.
— Chloe Neill
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.
— Thomas Jefferson
The man who looks to nature for God ends with a riddle instead of with God
— Arnold Albert Van Ruler
A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
— Edward Abbey
NEPHEW: One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
— Bertolt Brecht
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
hardly any ruler lives so long as to have time to accustom to right methods a city which has long been accustomed to wrong. Wherefore,
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Give the girl an inch and she thinks she's a ruler.
— J. A. Jance
What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?
— Krishna Udayasankar
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
— Seneca The Younger
Ideology is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe.
— Marilynne Robinson
There was a time when people valued honor and loyalty - when serving a ruler wasn't about obedience and fear.
— Sarah J. Maas
He would only admit a word, or an action, into a play when it satisfied some internal ruler. He made sure everything counted.
— Imraan Coovadia
The Wizard was from a place called America, and to him, a female ruler was a strange and unsettling notion.
— Danielle Paige
A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
— George R R Martin
If you let your heart rule you, you'll have a good ruler by which to measure things. This can be called wisdom.
— Art Hochberg
But a parcel of walled soil does not make the heart of a ruler or define the nobility of a people!
— Janny Wurts
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
— Seneca The Younger
A ruler isn't always straight.
— Robert Half
Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
— George R R Martin
I'll just come right out and say it, rich people have no imagination. They can't even scratch their own asses without a ruler and a flashlight.
— Haruki Murakami
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.
— Aeschylus
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
— Frank Herbert
Shen Nung was more than just a ruler. To that end, his name's English translation is "divine farmer.
— Josh Chetwynd
Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.
— Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.
— S.D. Smith
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
— Lev Grossman
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[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.
— Immanuel Kant
A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
— Thomas A Kempis
Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
— E. T. Bell
Once the ruler is no longer willing to be the sacrifice for his people, he becomes not a leader but a leech,
— Tana French
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
— Thomas Carlyle
The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
— George W. Bush
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.
— Julian Huxley
A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Whatever you begin will see the light of day provided you can dream big and be a ruler over your dreams with persistent actions.
— Israelmore Ayivor
When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?
— Gregory Maguire
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule..
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Women had cup sizes to track their development. Men had a ruler and hope.
— Christopher Bollen
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
The continued reading led to her second conclusion: The Lord Ruler was far more whiny than any god had a right to be. When
— Brandon Sanderson
There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.
— Leanda De Lisle
My house was a world of my own possession, a country in which I was ruler and citizen, where I chose and where I served.
— Anita Diamant
It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.
— George R R Martin
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
— Frank Herbert
The king is my son!" Cersei rose to her feet. "Aye," her uncle said, "and from what I saw of Joffrey, you are as unfit a mother as you are a ruler.
— George R R Martin
It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.
— Han Fei
He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.
— Charlotte M. Mason
Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler - that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id.
— Karen Marie Moning
What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.
— Philip Yancey
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
Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.
— Sunday Adelaja
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.
— Antoine Rivarol
There she was, that queen looking out at him, a hint of the ruler she was becoming. And it knocked the breath out of him...
— Sarah J. Maas
A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.
— Patricia Briggs
No ruler can make a people good.
— George R R Martin
The wiser a king is,the greater his nation will become.
The more enlightened a nation is,
the more esteemed it is. — Matshona Dhliwayo
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
— James Gibbons
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
— Catherine The Great
The ruler must be a philosopher as well as a king; and he must govern unwillingly, because he loves philosophy better than dominion.
— Marcus Aurelius
A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.
— Matshona Dhliwayo