Rulers Quotes
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca the Younger
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It is manifest therefore that they who have sovereign power, are immediate rulers of the church under Christ, and all others but subordinate to them. If that were not, but kings should command one thing upon pain of death, and priests another upon pain of damnation, it would be impossible that peace and religion should stand together.
Thomas Hobbes
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The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.
Bernard Lazare
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How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).
Adolf Hitler
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
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Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.
Lao Tzu
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If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.
Solon
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If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.
Albert Einstein
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Anything that is missing in the implementation of the Minsk Agreement is - without any exception - up to the Kiev central government of Ukraine. You cannot demand something of Moscow that, in fact, the rulers in Kiev have to deliver. The most important aspect is the constitutional reform, Point 11 of the Minsk Agreement.
Vladimir Putin
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Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he must serve with humility. If he would lead them, he must follow behind. In this way when the sage rules, the people will not feel oppressed.
Lao Tzu
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Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.
Mahatma Gandhi
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God is in charge, waiting for His people to challenge the rulers of the earth and take the steering wheel from them, ... the battle for the earth is currently going on.
Gary North
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International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
Bernard Berenson
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Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.
Thomas Aquinas
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What luck for rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler
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An enlightened ruler doesnot worry about people not knowing him; he worriesabout not knowing people.
Zhuge Liang
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Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
Plato
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A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Herodotus
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As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
Lao Tzu
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I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.
Muhammad Ali
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We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
Muhammad Ali
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I often quote Hitler, who said words to the effect of, "Rulers are fortunate that the people do not think." Politicians know this. Even when the public seems to be upset, the politicians know if they can put on a brave face and ride it out, they generally will.
Ernie Chambers
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Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.
Dalai Lama
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
Catullus