Quote by Forest F. White

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

— Great Orod

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

— Han Fei

“The best rulers are scarcely known by their subjects; The next best are loved and praised; The next are feared; The next despised: They…

— Tao Te Ching

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

— Cato the Elder

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

— Frank Herbert

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

— George Orwell

“We can rely on the righteous Ruler.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“To be a good ruler one must be the best of servants.”

— J. Aaron Gruben

“And the good ruler is precisely the one who exercises his power as it ought to be exercised, that is, simultaneously exercising his power…

— Michel Foucault

“There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of monarchy; it first excludes a man from the means of information, yet empowers him to…

— Thomas Paine

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the…

— Laozi

A wise ruler should rely on what is under his own control, not on what is under the control of others.

— Niccolo Machiavelli