Rulers Quotes - Page 14

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

  Edward Snowden

  Leader, Citizens, Subjects

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• A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, People, Liberty

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• In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, People, Servant

  "The Real Benjamin Franklin".

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• The least Anararchic person in that conversation is the person saying 'you can't be an anarchist if you believe in god.' Because that's not an argument, it's just a statement. Why would somebody accept that? Because they either bow to your authority or they are afraid of your aggression. That's threatening to be another kind of ruler. Does that make any sense?

  Stefan Molyneux

  Believe, Doe, Bows

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• Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fate, Providence, Servant

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• God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the source of being that underlies creation and grounds its nature and future potential for continual transformative renewal in biophilic mutuality.

  Rosemary Radford Ruether

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.

  R. C. Sproul

  Believe, Government, People

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• Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

  John Foxe

  Kings, Church, World

  John Foxe (2001). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, Barbour Publishing

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• I always take an aspect between the ruling planets (i.e., the rulers of their Ascendants) as a testimony to the fact that the two people are likely to have a relationship of extraordinary intensity and importance… The close interaction of the ruling planets’ energies can be seen as indicative of a particularly specific symbol of how the two people interact with each other… in the vast majority of such cases, all of the other levels of interaction shown in a comparison will be secondary to the intense type of interchange symbolized by the aspect between the rulers.

  Stephen Arroyo

  Two, People, Energy

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• 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

  Powerful, Earth, Conscious

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• Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.

  Pope Gregory VII

  Kings, Mean, Pride

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• Pakistan's ruler Pervez Musharraf predicted the Taliban will fall for hiding Osama bin Laden. Ex-king Zahir Shah is standing by to replace Mullah Mohammed Omar. And the most ominous sign of all, President Bush has learned all their names.

  Argus Hamilton

  Kings, Fall, Names

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• Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.

  Ken MacLeod

  Country, Kings, Children

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• Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

  George B. McClellan

  Powerful, Rights, Glowing

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• Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.

  William Whewell

  Art, Science, Discovery

  William Whewell (1856). “Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...”, p.22

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• [T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

  Dick Armey

  Government, Years, Law

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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

  Government, Vices, Slavery

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• We do not want to create a situation like that which exists in South Africa, where the whites are the owners and rulers, and the blacks are the workers. If we do not do all kinds of work, easy and hard, skilled and unskilled, if we become merely landlords, then this will not be our homeland

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Want, Kind

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• When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Father, Meditation, Advice

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.16, Harmony

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• Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

  Aristophanes

  Work, Circles, Four

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• The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Strong, Men, Self

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945, Volume 13”, p.378, Best Books on

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• When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.

  Sun Tzu

  Discipline, Leader, President

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• By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.

  Saadi

  Obedience, Obedient, Protector

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• In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.

  George Orwell

  Country, Russia, Socialist Countries

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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