Quotes About Ruling

The highest form of life, Aristotle said, was that of the householder, who "as a citizen shared in the civic life of ruling and being ruled in turn."5 That certainly sounded a lot like life in 1402 Florence as well as fifth-century BCE Athens.

Democracy makes a stable civic life impossible. As Nietzsche's Zarathustra says, "I turned my back on those who rule when I saw what they call ruling: higgling and haggling for power with the rabble.

Hatred of Muslims sold. As the editor of The Sun said after facing a ruling on a separate incident, he would do the exact same thing again.

The worst judge, they say, is a deaf judge; the most dull Government is a free Government on matters its ruling classes will not hear.

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Will Morven be a good queen? Um, said Anya, flustered. She's the oldest... Bert's eyes opened wider, questioningly. And that makes her fit to rule? Tell me, in your reading, do you study history?

As one Edwardian expressed it, Britain enjoyed 'government of the people, for the people, by the best of the people.

Rome has spoken; the case is closed.

The Constitution is what the judges say it is, every time.

It is surely only a matter of time before some federal judge finds the Constitution unconstitutional.

Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the contempt into which that rash ruling has fallen should extend to other, more just legislation.

I am told that it is no longer fashionable to believe in a devil — but I care nothing for fashion! A devil there is I am sure, who for some inscrutable reason has a share in the ruling of this planet — a devil who delights in mocking us from the cradle to the grave.

the dissemination of information alone does not set people free, and a new information technology creates a new ruling class.

Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.

He loved his country dearly, and wished her to be, as he believed her to be, first among nations. But he had no belief in perpetuating her greatness by any grand improvements. Let things take their way naturally, — with a slight direction hither or thither as things might require. That was his method of ruling. He believed in men rather than measures.

For the time being the continuing influx of Irish workers, who were all Catholic, was an unsettling element, as everything about Ireland at that time was unsettling to the class known as the Protestant Ascendancy which ruled it.

the ruling classes, as the phrase Protestant Ascendancy indicates, tended one way, while their social inferiors, whether servants, farmers or soldiers, were almost universally Catholic.

The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government.

When then the law has spoken in general terms, and there arises a case of exception to the general rule, it is proper, in so far as the lawgiver omits the case and by reason of his universality of statement is wrong, to set right the omission by ruling it as the lawgiver himself would rule were he there present, and would have provided by law had he foreseen the case would arise.

Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.

Adam put the paper down and said, I never like to see government spelt with a large G.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgment, not till he's shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws. Experience, there's the test.