Quotes About Ruling

I understand there was some controversy about the coroner's ruling concerning Josephus Jones's

This is typical, trying to treat history as though it is the property of the ruling class, which will dispense however much of it they want to dispense at any given point in time.

canon gives orders that no more prayers are to be offered up for the British government.

Let each of the Appetites, so necessary to our bodies, be our servant and not our master, and remember, above all things, that sin and slavery to any Appetite begin in our thoughts. It is our thoughts that we must rule, and the way to rule them is very simple. We just have to think of something else when an evil thought comes, something really interesting and nice, with a prayer in our hearts to God to help us to do so.

Sadly, corruption is so widespread that opposition parties have as many corrupt members as ruling parties. Hence, today, even if we want, we can't vote in an honest government.

The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasingly angry majority that not only wants to change the Republican policies that are moving wealth upward, but also threatens to hold Republican leaders accountable to the law.

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.

One of the errors of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the belief that regime change must be creative. The theory was that the destruction of a state and its ruling elite would bring freedom and justice.

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

The universal is what the ruling order doesn't have, not what it does have. In this way, it is always on the side of those fighting on behalf of freedom and equality because they are what is missing, not what is manifested.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

In this loose structure law was weak, unpopular, and diverse. The people preferred to be ruled by custom, and to settle their disputes by face-saving compromises out of court. They expressed their view of litigation by such pithy proverbs as "Sue a flea and catch a bite," or "Win your lawsuit, lose your money.

military court (consejo de guerra)

It never before happened that the rich ruling and more educated minority, which has the most influence on the masses, not only disbelieved the existing religion but was convinced that no religion is no longer needed.

Francois I had commanded that the French speak one tongue, and the Langue d'oil triumphed over the Langue d'oc.

No, no! said the Queen. Sentence firstverdict afterwards.

In times of peace, kings and nobles lived by the pleasure principle: eating, drinking, hunting, playing games, copulating, all in ostentatious excess. So at the very period when the myth of the machine was taking form, the problems of an economy of abundance first became visible in the behavior and fantasies of the ruling classes-here, too, mirroring in advance the processes at work in our own age.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.