Quotes About Ruling

Vladimir Putin has to create foreign enemies, and he also has to justify... he has to claim... he can't acknowledge that there's a legitimate protest against his authoritarian rule, so he's got to blame it on Hilary Clinton.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do." She hit a mark there right enough, Hawat thought. He nodded for Paul to continue. "She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.

Arrakis is a one-crop planet [...] One crop. It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings.

ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. —POLITICS AS REPEAT PHENOMENON: BENE GESSERIT TRAINING MANUAL

Gowachin Law made a special distinction between prejudgment and bias. McKie considered this. The interpretation of bias was: "If I can rule for a particular side I will do so." For prejudgment: "No matter what happens in the arena I will rule for a particular side." Bias was permitted, but not prejudgment.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them. — My Dad (something he told me when I was a kid)

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.

Archimedes of Syracuse, a friend and kinsman of the ruling dynasty

especially with its ruling elites of colonial European administrators and settlers, early twentieth-century Africa had been as socially and culturally complex as sixteenth-century Europe.

The composition of the oligarchy of government [...] emerges as the dominant theme of political history [...] ; it is something real and tangible, whatever may be the name or theory of the constitution.

Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us overthrowing the ruling classes with all the brutality [loud laughter] that the proletariat is capable of deploying in its struggle.

Maybe there has been a rebellion in this sector. The winner may be systematically mopping up all Patrol bases. That would leave him free to rule the space lanes as he pleases. A very practical and necessary move if there has been a change of government.

divine authority behind government

This then is the highest adornment of the Kingdom of Christ, that he rules over his church by his Spirit. He

This anti-Hillary sentiment was especially alive and well in the White House, where the ruling triumvirs—Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and Michelle Obama—were working overtime to undermine Hillary's chances.

A sustainable global peace lies only in reconsidering and changing distinctive and monopolized thoughts and policies within ruling minds since practically that cost nothing. However, such precious belief, faith, and step can constitute equality, security, and justice everywhere.

Justice depends on the judge; the judge executes the law. The law is a process of the constitution approved by the ruling majority, which favours its interests; thus, the favour falls under a conflict of interest, and it is not justice. The conclusion is that nowhere exists a factual and transparent justice.

Politics is the only profession where there is no competition because both ruling and so-called opposition have the common connection & tacit co-operation to work in co-ordination against the ordinary population, so it does not make sense to vote in election

The fact is that nothing has changed as far as ruling method is concerned, only a person who was once called the king is now designated as the head of the nation.

Paraphrased for brevity: Those who think a HERILE government is the same as a regal government or that of a large family or of a city are mistaken.

I'm cummin' round more'n'more to Your earliest=Levanthine pointa view, Dan, >that the world may well have originated less from a creative and far more from a destructive principle< ... - : aren't we ruled=t'day by a wind that produces great lethargy (&thirst)?...<

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.