Long time Quote by Martin Luther

“Was this humanity? Was this nobility? Was this the Christian glory that presumed to hold itself above the heathen Turk? To suffer innocents be…

— Ray Russell

“the rulers were, in serious senses, whether willingly or unwillingly, the prisoners of their own rhetoric; they played games of power according to rules…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“We have to hand it to the little tyrants who devise the picturesque abuses of authority that give the moral populace the clear examples…

— John Popielaski

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

— John Calvin

“I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel. He must, however, take care not to misuse this mercifulness.…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“When unjust laws are duly weighed, The king, too, may be disobeyed. They owed their true prince everything.”

— Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

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

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends…

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“For all your many crimes, the tortured insanity you inflicted on the gentlest, dearest creature in the world must rank amongst your blackest sins.”…

— T.O. Munro

“...only those who have the will and the power to shoot down their fellow men, are the real rulers in this, as in all…

— Lysander Spooner

“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the…

— C.P. Snow