Quotes About Rule

every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

At which the Emperor rejoycing, made her his Wife, and gave her an absolute power to rule and govern all that World as she pleased.

We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself, and can, therefore, regulate his own conduct when it shall be necessary to follow some rule of life. Such

The rich is not fit to rule, unless he is also rich in soul, in wisdom.

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.

Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.

To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

The only sure rule in golf is he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie.

In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became known as North and South America that it was able to rule most of the world until the mid-twentieth century.

When the state is given absolute power, in this case to calculate and terminate the end of a human life, the state assumes a power that is "absolute," extending its domination to the borders of life and death. According to Meeropol, when people give that power to the state, they sacrifice their popular sovereignty. Executions function not to serve the people but as another mode of rule in today's theatrics of state terror. I

E]very action taken by us, no matter how simple or ridiculous, is regulated under some institutional rule or policy. . . . This is done so we will become pliant and submit to every whimsical command of guards, staff and administrators no matter how perverted or criminal-directed. … This puts the fear of God into the hearts of those prisoners out in the general population.

Obama has repeatedly defied the limits of his constitutional authority, aggregating powers unto himself in ways past presidents have not. During more than six years as president, Obama has nullified laws, created laws, delayed the implementation of laws, and issued exemptions from and waivers to laws, much of which has been accomplished through executive branch rule making.

Of course, the primary difference between the counterrevolution and the American Revolution is that the former seeks to destroy American society and impose autocratic rule, and the latter sought to protect American society and institute representative government.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.