As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good… — Cassandra Danz Copy Share Image
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say… — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
I don't know if [Barack Obama] saw the latest religion survey, but almost a quarter of the country are Nones. I don't… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad;… — Plato Copy Share Image
The people are the ultimate guardians of their own liberties. In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims,… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Our political way of life is by the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God, and of course presupposes the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as… — Ben Moreell Copy Share Image
Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate.… — Alaa Al Aswany Copy Share Image
[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and… — Richard Francis Burton Copy Share Image
Lebanon is restless, Syria got its walking papers, Egypt is scheduling elections with more than one candidate, and even Saudi Arabia, whose… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“It is no good for rulers if the people they rule cherish ambitions for themselves or form strong bonds of friendship with… — Plato Copy Share Image
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or… — Plato Copy Share Image
If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me! What has your politics fed on since you've been ruling the world? On butchery and… — Charles de Coster Copy Share Image
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic. — Chinua Achebe 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… — August Wilhelm von Schlegel Copy Share Image
Rulers who destroy men's freedom commonly begin by trying to retain its forms. ... They cherish the illusion that they can combine… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Every ruler must remember three things. Firstly, that he rules man; secondly, that he rules according to law, and thirdly, that he… — Agathon Copy Share Image
In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their… — Anthony Lewis Copy Share Image
“In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but… — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil… — Plato Copy Share Image
The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image