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Rulers Quotes by Laozi
- The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.
- Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next…
- Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.
- Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
- It (Tao) is eternally without desire. So, it can be called small. All things return to it, although it does not make itself their ruler.…
- People starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve.
- Stillness is the ruler of haste.
- The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.
- In lightness the root is lost. In haste the ruler is lost.
- People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.
- In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared. Finally…
- The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
- When his (the good ruler's) task is accomplished and his work done, The people all say, "It happened to us naturally.
More Rulers Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce
- The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. — James Bovard
- The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. — George W. Bush
- The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. — Vaclav Havel
- I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that… — Bernard Moitessier
- If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not… — Sun Tzu
- Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. — Sun Tzu
- No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out… — Sun Tzu
- There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to… — Sun Tzu