Quotes About Rulers

Power is the sum total of the wills of the mass, transfered by express or tactic agreement to rulers chosen by the masses.

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power

The powers that be are ordained of God.

the Mongol rulers of what became Iran, a few Christian

Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

Thou [Death] setter up and plucker down of kings.

We have kiss'd awayKingdoms and provinces.

How can you say that princes have the greatest power of subduing their enemies, when they are sensible that all are their enemies, who are subject to their rule?

If literature is to transcend political interference and return to being a testimony of man and his existential predicament, it needs first to break away from ideology. To be without "isms," is to return to the individual and to return to viewing the world through the eyes of the writer, an individual who relies on his own perceptions and does not act as a spokesman for the people. The people already have rulers and election campaigners speaking in their name.

And royalty are immune from homicidal tendencies? Study your history, Stoker. I think you will discover that is how most of them became royal in the first place.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

a lo largo de la historia no ha habido un solo gobernante ni rey que no haya tenido responsabilidad en muertes

They did not say it was a punishment on womankind. This was because men were the rulers and women had to suffer for their sins.)

In my measure there's little to choose between two such monarchs, but much to be said for keeping a man's fealty and word.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

From all around the Third World, You hear the same story; Rulers Asleep to all things at All times - Conscious only of Riches, which they gather in a Coma - Intravenously So that You wouldn't know they were Feeding if it was not for the Occasional Tell-tale trickle somewhere Around the mouth. And when they are jolted awake, They stare about them with Unseeing eyes, just Sleepwalkers in a nightmare.

Napoleon's plan was for his army to arrive in Egypt not as conquerors but liberators. Landing in Aboukir Bay on July 1, 1798, the French captured Alexandria the next day, overcoming the surprised Mamelukes - the despotic local rulers - with a combination of modern artillery and infantry tactics.

What we know for sure is that rulers did not appreciate having astrologers forecast the time and manner of their demise. As

We have had enough guesses; I'll state the obvious: Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. And that is the one practical difference. He may fail in wisdom, he may lapse in civic virtue. But his average performance is enormously better than that of any other class of rulers in history.

And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite that none of the passengers felt any motion at all. Those on the dark side of the ship mostly slept and voyaged into worlds of freedom and fantasy; those on the light side moved about the tasks appointed for them by their rulers, or idled waiting for the next order from above.

With snow came the kites, once the rulers of Kabul's winter skies, now timid trespassers in territory claimed by streaking rockets and fighter jets.

They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.