Quotes of: Rulers Keyword

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Ursula: Now I am the ruler of all the ocean! The waves obey my every whim!

The Little Mermaid

Lord Naritsugu Matsudaira: Ruling is convenient, but only for rulers. The people must live to serve.

13 Assassins

History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

Voltairine de Cleyre

The Impression that Pakistan being an Islamic State is thereby a Theocratic State is being sedulously fostered in certain quarters with the sole object of discrediting her in the eyes of the world. To anyone conversant with the basic principles of Is...

Fazul Rahman

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Dear and Glorious Physician

Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. It can fit around anything. Show me your body, he said. It only means one thing.

Eurydice

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

A Game of Thrones

5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.

The Art of War

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

Daniel Radcliffe

The idea of Plato that philosophers must be the rulers and directors of society is practiced in India.

Indian Philosophy, Volume 1

An immovable object and an unstoppable force don't exist in universe which ruled by single ruler.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.

Venus in Arms

Rulers are not anointed. They are created by the void of self-mastery.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

Patrick Henry

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.

Samuel Morse

We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.

Marcus Garvey

I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I appear to be ruler if the control of the Roman city be wrested from my hands.

Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor