Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny. — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others. — Han Fei Copy Share Image
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think). — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The clash between the aspirations of the people for a better life and the insistence of their rulers on building a powerful… — Harrison Salisbury Copy Share Image
The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
If you have but a single ruler, you lie at the discretion of a master who has no reason to love you:… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the… — Catullus Copy Share Image
PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously… — John Adams Copy Share Image
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I always take an aspect between the ruling planets (i.e., the rulers of their Ascendants) as a testimony to the fact that… — Stephen Arroyo Copy Share Image
Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Israelis… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Non-violence is very weak in the theoretical sense; it cannot defend itself. But it is most powerful in the action situation where… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at… — Friedrich Schiller 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
All is made clear,regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph… — Michael Tsarion Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people. — Zhuge Liang Copy Share Image
People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern. — Laozi Copy Share Image
