In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised… — Laozi Copy Share Image
In dealing with those who share his bed, the enlightened ruler may enjoy their beauty but should not listen to their special… — Han Fei Copy Share Image
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even… — Christina, Queen of Sweden Copy Share Image
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The lesson that Americans today have forgotten or never learned - the lesson which our ancestors tried so hard to teach -… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
“We say that we are rulers of this country, but we do not make a rule of law. We say that we… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
…the globalization that characterizes today's economics goes beyond or eludes the sovereignty of individual states, and thus the power of their rulers.… — Patricio Aylwin Copy Share Image
In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a… — George R. R. Martin 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
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
“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
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
It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while… — Aristotle 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
The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their… — Claudius Claudianus 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
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
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
“Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion,… — Anonymous 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
Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning… — Richard Wurmbrand 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
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
It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very… — James Bovard 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 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
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
