Quotes About Rule

A passion to rule, to tear down society and remake it more to their liking, a passion to silence all dissent and to make a world in which they wouldn't have to hear an opinion at variance with their own. The passion for destruction always has more appeal to more people than does the passion to preserve and build. It's an ugly truth of human nature. Passion, sir. The kind of raw passion that breeds ruthlessness

When taking care of a horse, what one must do is remove everything that is harmful to the horse in order to bring out the horse's own natural vitality. The way to rule the empire is similar.

There's a little trick called the Rule of Three: if you use any three of the five senses, it will make the scene immediately three-dimensional.

As a rule of thumb, four consecutive lines of dialogue is about as much as you want to have without a tag.

there is protection in numbers. And that knowledge, bred in the bone, is what lies behind mob rule.

No effort for autonomy or self-rule can succeed if it is approached illegally.

You don't adjust. You just dominate.

The number one driver in this team is the one who is ahead on the track, the rule is simple.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

Lack of rule of law is the main reason Pakistan could not join the ranks of progressive nations.

We have to work hard with the bad language that we have inherited to arrive at that language which has never yet ruled, but which rules our intuition, and which we imitate.

After seventy-five days, Tenochtitlán had finally been subdued by the persistent Spaniards and abandoned by its people. The war with the Mexicans had come to an end. The Aztec empire had crumbled with the destruction of its great and beautiful city. The breaking of the siege of Tenochtitlán marked the beginning of Spanish rule on the mainland of the New World.

The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.

One can gain more truth from the exception than from the rule

L'affetto è anch'esso una fatica e nessuno vi si sottopone per regola: il vero riposo è l'indifferenza.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

The Constitution created a framework, not a Ouija board, precisely because the Framers understood that prospect of a nation ruled for centuries by dead prophets would be the very opposite of freedom.

The exception has become the rule, and that is the worst of all possible tyrannies.

1) Always question authority; (2) when in doubt, see rule 1.

A key rule of BrainTrusts is that the team is not allowed to suggest solutions, only to highlight problems. This rule maintains the project leaders' ownership of the task, and helps prevent them from assuming a passive, order-taking role.

One of the best methods for handling negative news is that of Joe Maddon, the coach of the Chicago Cubs and avowed oenophile. In his office, Maddon keeps a glass bowl filled with slips of paper, each inscribed with the name of an expensive wine. When a player violates a team rule, Maddon asks them to draw a slip of paper out of the bowl, purchase that wine, and uncork it with their manager. In other words, Maddon links the act of discipline to the act of reconnection.

Madness in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. —Friedrich Nietzsche

There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?

South Korea is a vigorous democracy, with strong judicial institutions and a commitment to the rule of law.