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• They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon.

  Plato

  Law, Tyrants, Way

  Plato (1963). “The Collected Dialogues of Plato: Including The Letters”, Bollingen

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• The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

  Sallust

  Soul, Captains, Morality

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• Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their financiers. But the lower classes had no use for them, and butchered them whenever a righteous excuse could be found. And righteous excuses were not wanting. If a plague broke out, of course the Jews had poisoned the wells. If a war was lost, of course the Jews had aided the enemy. If a boy mysteriously disappeared, of course the Jews had murdered him to procure blood for their Passover drink.

  Lewis Browne

  Christian, War, Boys

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• As a married woman, I know perfectly well what six or eight inches looks like, so it's easy to make a good estimate. This mental measurement makes planting time much more interesting than it might be otherwise.

  Cassandra Danz

  Garden, Eight, Interesting

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• Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

  Charlotte Mason

  Mom, Mother, Home

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “School Education”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I'm not the type that gets upset,
  Try to disrespect folks just to earn respect.
  But learn this fact: whether white or black,
  I can't be conquered in my style of rap.
  For jealousy and envy are dumb ones' tools,
  So Ricky says nothing, he keeps his cool.
  Revenge is not a mission that the Ruler's on,
  Just forgiveness required for the wrong that's done.

  Slick Rick

  Revenge, Rap, White

  Song: The Ruler's Back, Album: The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988

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• It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so that they might emerge as the rulers of us all.

  Louis Thomas McFadden

  Mathematical Equations, Work Out, Historical

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• You are the ruler of a kingdom, and whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom -- the law within your body.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Thinking, Law

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

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• The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection from death. Paradoxically, those who embark on the biblical witness constantly risk death - through execution, exile, imprisonment, persecution, defamation, or harassment - at the behest of the rulers of this age. Yet those who do not resist the rulers of the present darkness are consigned to a moral death, the death of their humanness. That, of all the ways of dying, is the most ignominious.

  William Stringfellow

  Biblical, Darkness, Risk

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• Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Reliability, Use, May

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2008). “Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets”, p.224, Random House

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• We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Government, Law, Safety

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.157, TAN Books

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• Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
  and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
  of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
  sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sheep, Practice, Differences

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Impact of Science On Society”, p.44, Lulu Press, Inc

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• You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!

  Ed Wood

  Trying, Littles, Taste

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• The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, War, Thinking

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.

  Doris Lessing

  Believe, Duration, Empires

  Doris May Lessing (1983). “Documents relating to the sentimental agents in the Volyen Empire”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• 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

  Inspirational, Men, Evil

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• Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Responsible, Wealthy, Organized

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

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Hands, Citizens

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from May 24, 2011

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• Although the semicircle of the Moon is placed above the circle of the Sun and would appear to be superior, nevertheless we know that the Sun is ruler and King. We see that the Moon in her shape and her proximity rivals the Sun with her grandeur, which is apparent to ordinary men, yet the face, or a semi-sphere of the Moon, always reflects the light of the Sun.

  John Dee

  Kings, Moon, Men

  John Dee (2000). “The Hieroglyphic Monad”, p.10, Weiser Books

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• The ruler should employ person in tasks according to their abilities because Knowers ( or the means ) and efficient employees make impossible tasks also possible.

  Chanakya

  Mean, Political, Tasks

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• I am convinced that 1941 will be the crucial year of a great New Order in Europe. The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations. . . . Those nations who are still opposed to us will some day recognize the greater enemy within. Then they will join us in a combined front, a front against Jewish exploitation and racial degeneration.

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Fall, Order

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• I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone else. And it always gets to that. What I am desperately trying to do is create one nation with everyone being a man of property, or having the opportunity to be a man of property.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Opportunity, Men, Two Nations

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• When I go to a nude beach, I always take a ruler, just in case I have to prove something.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beach, Cases, Prove

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.109, Zondervan

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• How apostles are received is a key measuring stick as to how the Lord will release blessings or judgments on a territory. Apostles also have authority over the demonic rulers of a region. They have the ability to demonstrate supernatural power that draws a whole region to our life-giving God.

  Chuck Pierce

  Blessing, Keys, Giving

  "The Future War of the Church: How We Can Defeat Lawlessness and Bring God's Order to Earth". Book by Chuck D. Pierce, Rebecca Wagner Sytsema, 2001.

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• The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.

  Chris Hedges

  Inability, Faults, Pathology

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