Cannot Quote by Han Fei

The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it…

— Han Fei

Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His…

— Henri Nouwen

If ministers forget their ruler and establish relationships with foreign powers in order to advance the interests of their confederates, there will be scant…

— Han Fei

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 ministers of kings should learn to moderate their ambition. The higher they elevate themselves above their proper sphere, the greater the danger that…

— Louis XIV

A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their…

— Han Fei

When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent…

— Sun Tzu

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies…

— Thomas Paine

The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of…

— David Hume

The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the…

— Burton Watson

A Minister can always give a reason; and, if he be clever, he can generally when doing so punish the man who asks for…

— Anthony Trollope

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time…

— Winston Churchill