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Quotes About Rule

I took a deep breath, however, and followed my rule of never speaking frankly to women in moments of emotion. No good ever comes of this.
~ Iris Murdoch
On this planet . . . many things are 'the rule' which are thoroughly evil and pernicious.
~ Iris Murdoch
All theorizing is flight. We must be ruled by the situation itself and this is unutterably particular. Indeed it is something to which we can never get close enough, however hard we may try as it were to crawl under the net.
~ Iris Murdoch
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing—to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics—Well, they can do whatever they wish.
~ Isaac Asimov
There can be no serious conflicts on Earth, in which one group or another can seize more power than it has for what it thinks is its own good despite the harm to Mankind as a whole, while the Machines rule.
~ Isaac Asimov
Was die Moralisten das Böse nannten, war in Wirklichkeit die Lebensregel.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
As Hannah Arendt has observed, "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.
~ Isabel V. Hull
For decades, Robert Mugabe has thumbed his nose at the world. The long-time dictator has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist, repeatedly insulted foreign dignitaries, ignored regional and international agreements to which he was a signatory, and isolated the country from any legitimate international economic or political engagement.
~ Roy Bennett
There is no rule of law in Zimbabwe; there's selective application of the rule of law. Patrick Chinamasa, who is the minister of justice, destroyed the independent judiciary.
~ Roy Bennett
To think that you can - as a Zionist, Jewish independent state at the end of the 20th century - rule over another people for generations without having any consequences - it's ridiculous.
~ Ehud Barak
Well, first of all the defensive three-seconds rule doesn't allow you to play a true zone like you would in international ball and college. Another key factor is training. It is a very different defense to coach, in a pure sense. Not many coaches in the NBA have focused on that, they're largely man-focused.
~ Daryl Morey
There is a strike zone in the pocket that's very clear. Can't hit QBs low, can't hit them high.
~ Alex Smith
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
God save our Gracious King, Long live our Noble King, God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
~ Henry Carey
Rule Britannia, Britannia, rule the waves; Britains never will be slaves.
~ James Thomson
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
~ James Russell Lowell
Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
~ Mary McCarthy
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
~ Alexander Pope
Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.
~ Ali Babacan
You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.
~ Richard Cobden
If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.
~ Kim Collins
In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.
~ Nostradamus
Everybody wants power and control in their life.
~ Robert Greene