Rulers Quotes

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst.

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

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

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.

She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers!

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

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.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

We have a lot of friends, but not among the governments - the friends are in the peoples. And in the last instance the peoples will be the rulers of those states.

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.

It is the rule of law alone which hinders the rulers from turning themselves into the worst gangsters.

All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers.

I am savage about what has been done to the United States by its rulers.

You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better to encourage the fighters than the rulers.

Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.

All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

The rulers of the country generally believed that betting eliminates strikes. Men had to work in order to gamble.

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

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.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did!

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.

RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.

For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.

Convention is the ruler of all.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners.

Shambhala is a tradition where there were rulers, kings, and powerful people who actually were very benevolent and kind. They got things done, and they didn't abandon their tradition.

Rulers always hate and suspect the next in succession. [Lat., Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus qui proximus destinaretur.]

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything that our government has done to other people, not to mention our own.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think).

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.