Rulers Quotes - Page 25

• That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

  John Webster

  Long, Political, Soldier

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.49, Manchester University Press

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• It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

  Lester B. Pearson

  War, Men, Easy

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• There is no "ruler" in our country. Poland is a democracy. Our Prime Minister leads the government; the President is fulfilling his tasks. But there is a little bit left for the party leader.

  Jaroslaw Kaczynski

  Country, Party, Government

  Source: uk.businessinsider.com

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• A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

  James Gibbons

  Ridiculous, Clergymen, Wells

  James Gibbons (2014). “The Faith of Our Fathers”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Religious, Prayer, Real

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• [R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Church, Share, States

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• 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.

  Criss Jami

  Kings, Hard Work, Humble

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.86, Criss Jami

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• There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Motivational, Long, Yards

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• With his decision to use force against the violent extremists of the Islamic State, President
  Obama ... is stepping once again - and with understandably great reluctance - into the chaos
  of an entire civilization that has broken down. Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but
  gone. The Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism -
  the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition-than at any time since the collapse of the
  Ottoman Empire a century ago.

  Hisham Melhem

  Islamic, Civilization, Broken

  "The Barbarians Within Our Gates" by Hisham Melhem, www.politico.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

  Oswald Spengler

  War, Mean, Race

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• Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.

  Mark Gevisser

  Party, Zuma, President

  "South Africa: beyond a one-party state" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2009.

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

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Atheist, Free Spirit, Atheism

  Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.36, SUNY Press

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• A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

  Patricia Briggs

  Stupid, Insane, Problem

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.128, Penguin

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• Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Agreement, Tactics, Mass

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• Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance?

  Shane Claiborne

  Jesus, Son, Support

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.166, Harper Collins

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• Alas...I too have known love, that ruler of hearts, that soul of our soul: it's never brought me anything except one kiss and twenty kicks in the rump. How could such a beautiful cause produce such an abominable effect on you?

  Voltaire

  Beautiful, Heart, Kissing

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• Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Ocean, Men, White Man

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.19, University of Illinois Press

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• Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Best Effort, People, Use

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• Any sensible ruler would have killed off Leonard, and Lord Vetinari was extremely sensible and often wondered why he had not done so. He'd decided that it was because, imprisoned in the priceless, inquiring amber of Leonard's massive mind, underneath that bright investigative genius was a kind of willful innocence that might in lesser men be called stupidity. It was the seat and soul of that force which, down the millennia, had caused mankind to stick its fingers in the electric light socket of the Universe and play with the switch to see what happened - and then be very surprised when it did.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Light, Play

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• If rulers refuse to consider poems as crimes, then someone must commit crimes that serve the function of poetry, or texts that possess the resonance of terrorism.

  Hakim Bey

  Terrorism, Crime, Resonance

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.19, Autonomedia

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• 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. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Teaching, Knowledge, Men

  "Atatürk: The Biography of the founder of Modern Turkey". Book by Andrew Mango, 1999.

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• I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. I am the Guardian. The Soulless Keeper. Neither Human, nor Apollite, I exist beyond the realm of the Living, beyond the realm of the Dead. I am the Dark-Hunter. And I am Eternal…unless I find that one pure heart who will never betray me. The one whose faith and courage can return my soul to me and bring me back into the light. (Dark-Hunter Creed)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Dark, Night

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• Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate. One doesn't need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt. On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

  Alaa Al Aswany

  Hands, Practice, Political

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• Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly forgotten how foolhardy you can be. "Foolhardy?" Kelsier asked with a laugh. "that wasn't foolhardy - that was just a small diversion. You should see some of the things I'm planning to do! Dockson stood for a moment then he laughed too. "By the Lord Ruler, it's good to have you back, kell! I'm afraid I've grown rather boring during the last few years" "We'll fix that" Kelsier promised.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Years, Laughing, House

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “Mistborn: The Final Empire”, p.46, Macmillan

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• As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.

  Theodor Adorno

  Successful, People, Done

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