Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. — Plato Copy Share Image
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“She said, A king is the best and worst of men. Of course. Of course. ” — David Anthony Durham Copy Share Image
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. — Lester B. Pearson 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
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
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
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
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
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
The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The Arab rulers are basically unpopular. They are supported by the United States against the wishes of their people. In all of… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and… — Plato Copy Share Image
We need to claim lunch back. It is our natural right. It has been stolen from us by our rulers. The fear… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
He is the dark prince. The all-powerful one. The leader of the creatures of the night." Then Meena said, "I'm confused then.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the most imposing personages of the a splendid procession; it is by them… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may,… — Bertrand Russell 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
Raisa felt relieved, yet oddly disappointed. She was the blooded princess heir, yet in servants' clothes she was apparently unrecognizable. In the… — Cinda Williams Chima Copy Share Image
When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after… — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image