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Quotes About Ruling

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
~ Ayn Rand
When a rules man gives you a ruling, that's it. Amen.
~ Gary Player
The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.
~ H. Rider Haggard
The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.
~ William Shakespeare
democracy is dying. We are ruled by faceless bureaucrats and lecherous puritans. ... You think about it. 'All right for me but not for you' is their philosophy.
~ Anne Stevenson
The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.
~ Lindsey Graham
The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.
~ Karl Hess
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
~ Tacitus
In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.
~ Gerald R. Ford
A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.
~ Sam Himmel
Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it.
~ Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again.
~ Peter Hain
There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power
~ Prentice Mulford
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
~ William Clark
Lord Valentia famously observed that it was better that 'India be ruled from a palace than a counting house'; but it was this spendthrift use of Company funds that more than anything gradually eroded Wellesley's support among the Company Directors
~ William Dalrymple
They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.
~ William Kittredge
only way we can defend the rights and interests of the majority against the greed, arrogance, waste and incompetence of the small ruling elite of politicians, bureaucrats, business bosses and bankers is by active campaigning and by using their laws against them. It will be interesting to see whether we can ever successfully fight back to defend our interests against the rapacious, self-serving, new ruling caste.
~ David Craig
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
~ Ed McMahon
The Supreme Court has made God unconstitutional.
~ Sam Ervin
The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.
~ Nigel Farage
It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.
~ Karl Popper
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
~ Karl Kautsky