Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered . — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us. — Dhirubhai Ambani Copy Share Image
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than… — William Thomas Walsh Copy Share Image
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear;… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix.… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and… — David Ben-Gurion Copy Share Image
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men...… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I went to a Christian School, and when I reached a certain age, I wasn't allowed to wear pants to school anymore.… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a… — William Stringfellow Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people would say that A Tibetan monk, even in Lhasa, may be free while the ruler of China may not be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it. — Laozi Copy Share Image
