Rule Quotes

3048 Rule quotes by 2073 unique authors

The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its… — Emma Goldman
We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she's getting everything. The second rule… — Justin Timberlake
Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Thus each truth discovered was a rule available in the discovery of subsequent ones. — Rene Descartes
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this… — Epictetus
I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how… — Ulysses S. Grant
The spread of democracy, the new foundation of the rule of law, and the creation of fledgling representative governments that honor and respect human rights-together… — John Cornyn
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or… — Ayn Rand
Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols,… — Alfred Korzybski
Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards. — Richard Sennett
God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify… — William Gurnall
Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh… — J C Ryle
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-- books… — J C Ryle
The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But… — J C Ryle
Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for… — J C Ryle
When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environmect or how to… — Chogyam Trungpa
One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English… — Joseph Goebbels
And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish… — Robert Musil
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things. — Kent Conrad
The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should be for a fair… — Maria Cantwell
If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall… — Anne Hutchinson
Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno... — Steven Morrissey
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we… — George Whitefield

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