A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The origin of all civil government, justly established, must be a voluntary compact, between the rulers and the ruled; and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses.… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The self-discipline of the Social Democracy is not merely the replacement of the authority of bourgeois rulers with the authority of a… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At Halicarnassus, the house of that most potent king Mausolus, though decorated throughout with Proconnesian marble, has walls built of brick which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Each person is entitled to some version of God that seems real, yet many versions contradict one another. The God of any… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic… — George Meany Copy Share Image
Kat looked at Hale. "I've never heard Marcus talk this much." "Yeah," Hale whispered. "I'm trying to decide if I like it."… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the… — Thomas Reed Copy Share Image
The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and when the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics!… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
[T]he rule of law does more than ensure freedom from high-handed action by rulers. It ensures justice between man and man however… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. "Foolhardy?" Kelsier… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue… — Noah Worcester Copy Share Image
God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a… — James Madison Copy Share Image