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Quotes About Rule

the Germans have got to be stopped. They think they're entitled to rule the world!" Da said: "We're British. Our empire holds sway over more than four hundred million people. Hardly any of them are entitled to vote. They have no control over their own countries. Ask the average British man why, and he'll say it's our destiny to govern inferior peoples.
~ Ken Follett
This was the kind of thing Oswald Mosley and his British Fascists wanted—a country in which the rule of law was replaced by bullying and beating.
~ Ken Follett
There's no rule that says public opinion has to be consistent.
~ Ken Follett
For years we've been campaigning against the rule that women can't vote. That's the barrier. Once it's broken down, people will see further concessions as mere technicalities. It will be relatively easy to get the voting age lowered and other restrictions eased.
~ Ken Follett
There's no rule that says public opinion has to be consistent." Gus found his boss's calm admirable, but a bit frustrating. "How the heck do you deal with that?" Wilson smiled, showing his bad teeth. "Gus, did someone tell you politics was easy?
~ Ken Follett
No hay ninguna ley que afirme que
~ Ken Follett
They have no tsar in America—no emperor or king of any kind. The army can't just shoot anyone they like. The people rule the country!" She
~ Ken Follett
A crime is a breach of an important social rule. Solitary animals don't have rules. A bear will trash another bear's cave, steal its food and kill its young. Wolves don't do those things: if they did, they couldn't live in packs.
~ Ken Follett
Brother Godleof read the prologue to the Rule of Saint Benedict: "Obsculta, o fili, praecepta magistri, et incline aurem cordis tui." Listen, my son, and turn the ear of your heart to the precepts of your master. Aldred loved the phrase aurem cordis, the ear of the heart. It suggested a way of listening more intense and thoughtful than the norm.
~ Ken Follett
And gone the Godless destiny of death and desperation, and gone the madness of a life committed to uncare, and gone the tears and terror of the brutal days and endless nights where time alone would rule.
~ Ken Wilber
Power tires only those who do not have it.
~ Giulio Andreotti
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.
~ Helen Clark MacInnes
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
~ Charles de Secondat
Law is but a heathen word for power.
~ Daniel Defoe
Nothing is more stylish than power.
~ Lois Wyse
Without any doubt, I am striving for power.
~ Alexei Navalny
Power is intoxicating.
~ Sho Baraka
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
~ John Podhoretz
Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.
~ Marie Lu
Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.
~ Mario Puzo
The person in power takes up the most space.
~ Nick Morgan
Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.
~ Pierre Corneille
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson