Ruler Quotes
248 Ruler quotes by 197 unique authors
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No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the…
— Yitzhak Rabin
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O man, do you believe that Christ is God? If you believe, fear, and keep His commandments? there is no other God but He (cf.…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
— Aeschylus
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Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church…
— Charles Hodge
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Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk…
— Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
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Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked—not least by his own party, which set a continental…
— Mark Gevisser
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There are 3 elements essential in the matters of the State, Food, Military equipment, and Confidence of the people in the ruler. Of these 3,…
— Confucius
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at…
— Friedrich Schiller
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One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
— Thomas Carlyle
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Convention is the ruler of all.
— Pindar
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The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.
— Claudius Claudianus
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I congratulate you and my country on the singular favor of heaven in the peaceable and auspicious settlement of our government upon a Constitution formed…
— John Hancock
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We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is…
— Marcus Garvey
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.
— Pythagoras
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There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all,…
— Thomas Reed
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The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live…
— Marcus Aurelius
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
— Catherine the Great
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I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers…
— Andrew Greeley
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I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought…
— Paul Feig
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I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to…
— Davey Havok
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Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the…
— Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
Who Wrote These Ruler Quotes
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