What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers. — Thomas Hodgskin 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
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
God to me is love. It's the ruler of all things, whether it's with a person or with music or with your… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
Now I'm not the type that gets upset, Try to disrespect folks just to earn respect. But learn this fact: whether white… — Slick Rick Copy Share Image
To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that… — Bernard Moitessier Copy Share Image
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers. — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
“It had always been thus, one law for the rulers, another for those they ruled. “Can” — David Penny Copy Share Image
Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round. — Steven Erikson 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
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
If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
Under the blessings of Divine Providence ... It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image