Many people are quick to say that we are not recognized by Muslims in the East . And I start with the… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character.… — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Children should not be coddled in their intellectual training any more than in their physical; and though the studies should be made… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Meiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
My great-grandfather Melvin had been a carpenter - so was my father - and they taught me the value of tools: saws,… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Power is not a matter of one dominant individual or institutions, but instead manifests in interconnected, contradictory sites where regimes of knowledge… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now,… — Marina of Aguas Santas Copy Share Image
Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder… — William Penn Copy Share Image
They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful… — Plato Copy Share Image
“When the Many are rulers, it cannot but be that, again, knavery is bred in the state; but now the knaves do… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I cannot avoid wondering about the feelings of those who are now the apparent rulers of Iran. They are, despite their mistakes… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever… — William Cabell Rives Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by… — Joseph Story 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 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
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
'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
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
![“They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and…” quote by Martin Luther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18d/martin-luther-106_bones_they-rulers-must-act-like-a-good-physici_473946.jpg)
