There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the… — Thomas Reed 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
I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like… — Salman Rushdie 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
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
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
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
'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 object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of… — William Beveridge Copy Share Image
Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime… — Eugene V. Debs 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
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
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
It is only my eye that has helped me. I am still hopeless with that thing called a scale ruler. I love… — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the… — Oliver Ellsworth 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
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant,… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to… — Ray Bradbury 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
“Ordinary men wonder why those of only average intelligence so often rise to the highest levels of power, while highly intelligent people… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so… — John Gresham Machen 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 Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx,… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image