“What is governing to a man that can rule himself? If he cannot rule himself, how shall he rule others?” — Confucius Copy Share Image
The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world. — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
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
She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers! — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“I think they should be the rulers,’ Juliana said, pausing. ‘They always were the best. The British.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
False kings of the earth had set themselves and the rulers take counsel togather. — Big Youth Copy Share Image
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
All Jews, however, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of… — Denis Fahey Copy Share Image
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man… — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that… — John Owen Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless... From the conclusion of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon… — Lewis Browne Copy Share Image
In the past, foreign intervention was obviously a major problem. Foreign domination, or if not domination, interference. But that has ended. There… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I went to a Christian School, and when I reached a certain age, I wasn't allowed to wear pants to school anymore.… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve… — Cardinal Richelieu 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 man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image