Quotes About Rule

If Lyudmila could uncover Bastet, the two of them would unite and rule not just a small Soviet satellite, not just the Children of the World, not just ancient Egypt, but – well, the whole Cosmos.

I know that the Duke of Edinburgh's rule was, 'Don't talk about yourself, don't give personal interviews.' I know that, and I know he told his children that because he told me.

In a case involving his private conduct, a President should be treated like any private citizen. The rule of law requires no more - and no less.

On campuses, where Liberal softies still rule with an iron fist, feminism is as safe as a city with no women drivers. That is the only thing I support about Saudi Arabia, by the way.

This public envy, seemeth to beat chiefly upon principal officers or ministers, rather than upon kings, and estates themselves. But this is a sure rule, that if the envy upon the minister be great, when the cause of it in him is small; or if the envy be general, in a manner upon all the ministers of an estate; then the envy (though hidden) is truly upon the state itself.

Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule.

Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to centralized power and impose constitutional constraints on the state. It must also have a state that is strong enough to act when action is required.

However, neither rule of law nor political accountability exists in contemporary China any more than they did in dynastic China.

My mind is my kingdom.

The first rule in questioning any witness is: Never ask a question if you are not sure what the answer will be. - Brice Mack

Listen, here is the law! I am the law!

I will, however, establish that success in love, as in all other aspects of life, belongs, as a rule, to the persistent and fiber man. Chaucer had reason to make the Old Bath confess: 'The truth is, more or less, we always succumb to attention and perseverance'.

Modern art he felt should be an interpretation and not a representment of reality, and he taught the golden rule of the artist that the half is usually more expressive than the whole.

Jesus Christ is God's rule. And Jesus Christ is God's presence. Wherever Christ is, there is the kingdom.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Today, rather than a democracy we have a plutocracy (rule by moneyed interests) in which some of the formal elements of democracy nonetheless remain. Needless to say a real democracy ... is impossible where income, wealth, and power are concentrated and where inequality is growing, that is, in the normal ways of things under capitalism

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it's the rule.

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

I think that's everything. It was a fun job, wasn't it? When you remember me, please remember that. Remember to smile. Now, move quickly. May you rule in wisdom." - Kelsier

May you rule in wisdom.

But it's not enough! So long as the most powerful of the Epics consider themselves immune, nothing will change. So long as you leave them alone, you're essentially proving what they've always said! That if an Epic is strong enough, he can take what he wants, do what he wants. You're saying they deserve to rule.

Jorgen Weight stepped into the infirmary, flight helmet under his arm. Perhaps he should have stowed the helmet, but there was no rule requiring it - and he felt good carrying it. It made hime feel ready to fly at a moment's notice. Gave him the illusion that he was in control. - Jorgen; Starsight: Brandon Sanderson, Skyward Series

The empire simply was. The people suffered its rule because they were comfortable with its little tyrannies. Corruption was inevitable. You lived with it. It was either that or accept the chaos of the unknown.