Quotes About Rulers

If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.

Chinese dragons are considered benevolent, much like ruler to subject, as long as the people were loyal to them. This is a Confucius principle. Japanese dragons, however, were believed to kill innocent people to force villages to give their maidens to them as food. - Kailin Gow On the Dragon King in Amazon Lee Adventures in China (Discussion Question)

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

The resulting Rechtsstaat has been described as a liberal autocracy. It provided strong protections of the rights of its citizens in an impersonal manner, even though these citizens did not have the political right to hold their rulers accountable through elections.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. —EPHESIANS 6:12

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.

Please don't be angry at me for abandoning you. I was given an extension on life. I should have died in Mare's place years ago. I was ready for this. The others will need you. You're their Mistborn now— you'll have to protect them in the months to come. The nobility will send assassins against our fledgling kingdom's rulers. Farewell. I'll tell Mare about you. She always wanted a daughter.

The law is not something holy, son. It's just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be in charge.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.

Por qué a los italianos les interesaba promover la leyenda de un héroe castellano? El hecho es que optaron por considerar a Gonzalo, en tanto que comandante de los ejércitos de Nápoles, defensor de los intereses de Italia frente a las agresiones de Francia. Giovio dijo de los gobernantes de Nápoles que eran buenos, de los españoles, que fueron valientes, pero de los franceses afirmó que eran «hombres extranjeros insolentes y crueles»34

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.

When in 1774 the rulers of Boston dared even to consider disarming the inhabitants, thousands of armed citizens felt justified in assembling and marching into town to demonstrate their opposition. The Founders considered a ban on importation of firearms and ammunition to violate the right to obtain and possess arms.

the ills of the human race would never end until either those who are sincerely and truly lovers of wisdom come into political power, or the rulers of our cities, by the grace of God, learn true philosophy.3

We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office; but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greater dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." —Justice Louis Brandeis

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

Around thrones the thunder rolls.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve. Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be improved

A comédia representa uma ameaça para o poder soberano não só por causa do seu pendor anárquico, mas também por fazer pouco de questões tão importantes como o sofrimento e a morte, diminuindo assim a força de algumas das sanções judiciais que as classes governantes tendem a ter na manga. Ela pode fomentar uma despreocupação temerária que afrouxa o poder da autoridade.

If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge them.

Our rulers rule by consent, which means that we like having them as rulers, if they do what we want them to do.