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The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there. — Damon Meredith

She said, A king is the best and worst of men. Of course. Of course. — David Anthony Durham

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do. — Stefan Molyneux

Rulers who attempt to control an unwilling populace govern nothing, and often find their heads atop a pike to boot. — Erika Johansen

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us. — Dhirubhai Ambani

Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers. — Thomas Aquinas

Yet what difference does it make whether the women rule or the rulers are ruled by women? The result is the same. - ARISTOTLE — Stacy Schiff

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

Why do the people think so little of death?
Because the rulers demand too much of life.
Therefore the people take death lightly. — Laozi

Stillness is the ruler of haste. — Laozi

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. — Alexis De Tocqueville

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy. — Adam Smith

Greasy or not greasy, they will govern you, when their time comes," said Augustine; "and they will be just such rulers as you make them. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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 worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself. — Cato The Elder

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without any quality of persons, some must be free, some serves, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther

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 are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery. — T.F. Hodge

In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. — Edward Snowden

Only a child believes his rulers have his best interest at heart," he said. "We would be wise to disabuse ourselves of such illusions. — Julie Wu

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble. — Michael Ondaatje

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power. — Will Durant

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

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. — Voltairine De Cleyre

What enables the enlightened rulers and good generals to conquer the enemy at every move and achieve extraordinary success is foreknowledge. — Sun Tzu

It is good diplomacy to allow our rulers their customs without adopting them ourselves. — Susan Leona Fisher

When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy — Gurcharan Das

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. — Samuel Lover

We took from him, ... proclaimed ourselves sole rulers of the earth, though we have not yet been able to complete our work. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition. — Quintus Curtius Rufus

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

Alas, our rulers are not gods, but puny, fallible men, like the kings who constantly forget their parts, and we common men should be their prompters. — Lin Yutang

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers. — Gore Vidal

Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn't look at coming changes. — Stanley Druckenmiller

I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. — Mahatma Gandhi

Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. — Seneca.

The rulers make laws for their own interests. But — Plato

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. — Chris Hedges

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others. — Han Fei

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers. — Aristotle.

It is the responsibility of good people to rise against bad rulers. — Abram Gitspof

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

She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers! — Corey Taylor

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters. — Ludwig Von Mises

Power corrupts the best of men.
Power destroys the worst of men.
Corrupt nations end up in turmoil.
Corrupt rulers end up in Hell. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do. — Terry Pratchett

In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior. — Kimberly Derting

the rich just bribe their way out. So yes, as far as the rulers are concerned, it works. — Iain M. Banks

Antarctica. You know, that giant continent at the bottom of the earth that's ruled by penguins and seals. — C.B. Cook

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

People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve. — Laozi

You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder! — Charles De Coster

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

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

I perceive your lovers purely as the successors of Alexander the Great, incompetent joint rulers of an empire where I once ruled supreme. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. — Conn Iggulden

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca.

I wasn't a class clown, because nuns have no sense of humor. They have rulers. — Dan Alatorre

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. — James Bovard

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures. — Alfred Korzybski

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. — Jan Masaryk

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers. — John Calvin

We will no longer be outcasts - we will be rulers. — K. Weikel

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

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 are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern. — Laozi

Though surnamed the Wise, he was not immune from the occupational disease of rulers: overestimation of their capacity to control events. No — Barbara W. Tuchman

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle.

It's always the same wherever one goes- it's not the most powerful rulers who have the happiest populations — Graham Greene

To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. — Lester B. Pearson

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it. — Henry David Thoreau

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers. — Thomas Hodgskin

Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect. — Mabel Hale

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers. — Muhammad Ali

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. — Felix Frankfurter

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious. — Laozi

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

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. — George Orwell

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year! — William Cowper

But there was no place like this in the world. Not so serene. So loved by its people and its rulers. The — Sarah J. Maas

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

Who can declare that money is not a power which rulers of the world cannot withstand? — S. Alice Callahan

Which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are. — Geert Hofstede

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. — Plato

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

To learn who rules over you simply look to those you cannot criticize. — Voltaire

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation. — L. Ron Hubbard

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power. — Catullus

A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage. — Sunday Adelaja

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers. — Jose Maria Aznar

Rulers tend to dislike those who break rules. — Pierce Brown

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

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

Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack. — Seth Dickinson

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world. — Saddam Hussein

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. — Elias Canetti

Because it can be deceived, the majority is as error-prone as any other ruler, but unlike other rulers, it can never be destroyed. — F.F. White