Faults Quote by Chris Hedges

“When individuals blunder, it is unfortuante and their families go down. When rulers fail, it is a national tragedy”

— Gurcharan Das

“It makes perfect political sense. We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.”

— Lev Grossman

The most immodest rulers are those who attribute their faults and insufficiencies to their people!

— Great Orod

“Because it can be deceived, the majority is as error-prone as any other ruler, but unlike other rulers, it can never be destroyed.”

— Forest F. White

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

— Sun Tzu

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“From the point of view of our present rulers, therefore, the only genuine dangers are the splitting-off of a new group of able, under-employed,…

— George Orwell

“Education, the press, politics, religion—in a word, all the great forces in the world—are at present on the side of irrationality; they are in…

— Bertrand Russell

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

— Pat Robertson

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

— Aristotle

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

— George Orwell

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

— Cato the Elder