“...which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.” — Geert Hofstede Copy Share Image
A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The most immodest rulers are those who attribute their faults and insufficiencies to their people! — Great Orod Copy Share Image
Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious. — Laozi Copy Share Image
“The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.” — Damon Meredith Copy Share Image
I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. I lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Put a lot of paint & a wooden ball or other object on a board. Push to the other end of the… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is… — Charlotte Mason 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 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
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do… — C. S. Lewis 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
Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises, is economical… — Confucius Copy Share Image
There will be no end to the troubles of states,Or of humanity itself,Till philosophers become kings in this world,Or till those we… — Plato Copy Share Image
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them,… — Gary North Copy Share Image
I am the monarch of the sea, The Ruler of the Queen's Navee, Whose praise Great Britain loudly chants And we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views… — Umar Copy Share Image
[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them. — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave… — Solon Copy Share Image