Rulers Quotes

• May God deliver us from ye all, and of His grace give us other rulers!

  

  Ernest Belfort Bax
  • God
  • Grace
  • Deliver

• Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession.

  

  Tacitus
  • Hate
  • Rulers
  • Succession

• What has been happening in Turkey. The country has been taken over by the present rulers and they have been very, very skillful and taking over everything and taking over control over everything and now taking control over the judiciary. They will be taking over the constitution. Unless there will be some radical change, which is unlikely, I will say the tradition of Kemalism will be dead in Turkey. And Turkey is becoming a more Islamic state, in the traditional sense.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Change
  • Control
  • Constitution

• Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Rulers
  • Bounds
  • God's Will

• 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
  • Relationships
  • Established
  • Rulers

• The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny. . . . In war, then, as in peace, assert the freedom of speech and of the press. Cling to this as the bulwark of all our rights and privileges.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Country
  • Peace
  • Cry

• Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly.

  

  Henry Knox
  • Men
  • Government
  • Distance

• Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Rulers
  • Measuring

• 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
  • Religious
  • Imagine
  • Misfortunes

• The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Worst
  • Rulers

• Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Religion
  • Common
  • Rulers

• Nature is out there, and we can do what we like to it. We can cut down the rain forest. We can put animals in factory farms and slaughter them as we like. We can over-fish the oceans. We can pollute the rivers. We can pollute the water and change climate. We are somehow superior to nature. We are somehow rulers of nature.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Water
  • Animal
  • Cutting

• in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Suffering

• The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Authority
  • Mess
  • Anarchy

• The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Shows
  • Behinds
  • Bows

• The subconscious part in us is called the subjective mind, because it does not decide and command. It is subject rather than a ruler. Its nature is to do what it is told, or what really in your heart of hearts you desire.

  

  William Thomas Walsh
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Desire

• No ruler in the history of the world has ever been able to afford a war. They're not affordable things. No prince ever says, 'This is my budget, so this is the kind of war I can have.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • World
  • War
  • Kind

• They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Trying
  • Leadership

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