Quotes About Rule

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

From his naval training he recalled someone giving him a rule of thumb about estimating the speed of a vessel based on its bow wake. The

Let me prevail as of old, as lover, as lord, as king, or have done with Love's tyrant rule.

correlation and regression are not two concepts—they are different perspectives on the same concept. The general rule is straightforward but has surprising consequences: whenever the correlation between two scores is imperfect, there will be regression to the mean.

Overconfidence: As the WYSIATI rule implies, neither the quantity nor the quality of the evidence counts for much in subjective confidence.

We proposed that they used resemblance as a simplifying heuristic (roughly, a rule of thumb) to make a difficult judgment. The reliance on the heuristic caused predictable biases (systematic errors) in their predictions.

But Taft also believed that the citizen who obeys only laws that he endorses "is willing to govern, but not be governed"—willing, in other words, to destroy the rule of law.

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

we both know the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet.

The rule of thumb is that the stolen painting ratings ten percent of its value on the black market. If the Caravaggio were worth fifty million on the open market, with such five million dirty. - Maurice Durand

While Dad was in prison the rule had been to never see the same stud three nights. One night is forgot like a fart, two like a pang, but after three nights lain together there is a hurt, and to soothe the hurt there will be night four, and five, and nights unnumbered. The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God. His hand is ever on the throttle of human affairs. He is everywhere present in the concerns of time. His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men. He rules the world just as He rules the church by prayer.

That's what you taught me - we don't have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Hobbes encouraged a new interest in human nature and a belief that governments only have the right to rule through contract.

The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule.

What a happy conception, then, was it for Congress to apply this simple rule, that the will of the majority shall govern...

Time is used solely as a guideline and not as a law or rule as most learned to not be able to do anything outside of a timeline, Train yourself to put in extra time in the places in your life that counts and look back next year and see where you are at

Why on earth would we spend our entire effort - sacrificing lives and time and immense amounts of money - to run an organization that wants the world to end? What would be the point? If we want to rule humanity, don't you think we'd want there to be a place for them to live? It's insane to think we want the Cataclysm to happen. It's outrageous and most definitely not intelligent. - Tilda

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

Monarchs have a great weakness, however, for their own sons, no matter how feckless and inept. A statistical study should be done across cultures assessing the relative frequency of the bizarre outcomes to which monarchical succession is prone: failure to provide an heir or successor, provision of an heir completely inept, or division of rule among several incompatible ones. Orderly succession followed by a successful reign is the exception.

When Jesus came preaching the kingdom of God, He came preaching God's right to rule over the minds and hearts of all people.