Age Quote by Laozi

In the Golden Age, Rulers were unknown. In the following age Rulers were loved and praised. Next came the age When rulers were feared.…

— Laozi

“In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that there were (their rulers).”

— Lao Tzu

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

— Laozi

“The rulers were using ancient knowledge to manipulate the amygdaloidal primal fear. They ruled through fear, preternatural fear created through soft, invisible waves designed…

— Amira Aly

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

— Lord Chesterfield

The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the…

— Kristin Cashore

“Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of 'the Big Folk', as they call us, and now they avoid us with…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable…

— Pope Gregory VII

“...for the interests of rulers require that their subjects should be poor in spirit, and that there should be no strong bond of friendship…

— Plato

“far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative…

— Charles Dickens

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

— Sallust

What good is it to be a king who's feared but not respected?

— Rei Fenusko