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Quotes About Rule

They were there for Norway, for the freedom of its lands and people from Nazi rule.
~ Neal Bascomb
Of course Iraq became the biggest, messiest experiment in changing the practice of minority rule. The country's once metastasizing chaos pushed many Arabs to conclude that the systems they suffered under were just fine thank you, given the violence involved in creating an alternative.
~ Unknown
The government had always utilized divide-and-rule tactics when dealing with Africans and depended on the strength of ethnic divisions among the people. But in places like Alexandra, these differences were being erased.
~ Nelson Mandela
It is a rule of life in the power elite that there is no such thing as a purely social act.
~ Nick Davies
Evil was amongst us, defying the Emperor's rule of order. And I served the Emperor. I always have. I always will. It is my oath. It is the thunder and the lightning.
~ Unknown
A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.
~ Nick Rahall
In society just as in the soul, when hierarchies abdicate the appetites rule.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Where everyone believes he has a right to rule, everyone eventually prefers that one man alone rule. The tyrant frees each individual from the tyranny of his neighbor.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
When it comes to curbing speech, experience thus confirms the general rule in human affairs: humility is to be preferred over arrogance.
~ Unknown
For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.
~ Nursultan Nazarbayev
he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?
~ Octavia E. Butler
I've noticed that people who have a little bit of power tend to use it.
~ Octavia E. Butler
All struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads
~ Octavia E. Butler
Neurosis is the rule, not the exception', and grasping this can help us to see that we are not alone. It is also the starting point for understanding what went wrong and learning that we have a choice: we can simply re-enact the past, or we can rewrite the script.
~ Oliver James
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
~ Unknown
We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.
~ Oren Lyons
It is heaven that rules.
~ Os Guinness
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.
~ Paracelsus
About thirty years ago, the Gray Lords, the powerful mages who rule the fae, began to be concerned about advances in science—particularly forensic science.
~ Patricia Briggs
Doesn't Shep live near Darlinghurst?" Amy asked. "Dude, don't call me darling," Dan said. "Ever. That's an absolute rule.
~ Patrick Carman
We're breaking a Seminole rule already.
~ Unknown
Once we had the Protestant ascendancy,' Cor Mogaill said. 'Now it's the Catholic ascendancy. And they both rule with the same mixture of self-interest and cynicism.
~ Unknown
It's like a rule of life that yer automatically happier when you don't gotta worry about something.
~ Patrick Ness