Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization… — Olof Palme
The democratic thought is based on that 'ordinary people' are suitable to rule themselves. — Torbjorn Tannsjo
Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks… — P.J. O'Rourke
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Unknown Author
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was… — Fernand Braudel
Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing.… — Sitting Bull
In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In… — Amory Lovins
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press.… — Auguste Comte
The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one. — Ralph Raico
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network… — Mary Parker Follett
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a… — Jane Addams
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. — Emily Greene Balch
There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind.… — Bianca Jagger
Human security comes only with human rights and the rule of law. Human rights are the basis for creating strong and accountable states without which… — Irene Khan
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won. — Joichi Ito
In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside… — Clifford Allbutt
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have… — Charles Darwin
My basic weeding rule: if they grow in rows they're flowers; if they don't they're weeds. — David Hobson
When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule, the people groan. — William Paterson
We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of… — John Dramani Mahama
In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before… — Pope Francis
Money must serve, not rule! The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but he is obliged in the name of Christ to remind all… — Pope Francis

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