Quotes About Rulership

Such subjects are the very strength of kings, And are thus above the law.

When you're the king of someplace, you don't voluntarily leave.

For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

Fire, water and GOVERNMENT know nothing of mercy.

Government is merciless

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

her thrones were not her concern.

Wilhelm was bombastic, overbearing, and contemptuous of what he perceived as softness in others. He described Czar Nicholas as "fit only to live in a country house and grow turnips.

Kingship seemed cursed to drive many men mad.

Thugs the world over loved nothing more than to look down on their vassals from a balcony.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time.

I've plotted and schemed all my life. There is no other way to be a King, fifty and alive all at once.

A queen does not need to be crowned,' said Güzel, 'in order to rule.

THRONES, DOMINATIONS

Hükmetmek isteyenlerin hiçbirinin hükmetmesine izin verilemiyorsa, bu iÅŸi kim yapabilirdi?

Who can possibly rule, if no one who wants to do it can be allowed to?

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The man is king. The man is supreme.

The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.

One man may as easily destroy, as govern: be King or Anti-King.