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Quotes About Ruled

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
~ Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Alas, his efforts to create predictive AI ended in failure. The world is ruled by chaos, and human behavior is too complex.
~ Douglas Preston
All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.
~ Philippa Gregory
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
~ Plato
I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.
~ Pope Francis
The whole area, manor house, Clink, all eighteen brothels and the handsome profits therefrom, belonged to and was ruled by the bishop.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
But I believe. I believe that once we were ruled by beings so evil that even their own shadows shied away from them.
~ Derek Landy
In Scripture we read of two kinds of men-the spiritual man controlled by the Holy Spirit, and the "carnal" man who is ruled by his passions.
~ David Jeremiah
There's no better sign that a civilization has reached its height than the awareness, in its members, of the futility of all effort, given that we're ruled by implacable laws, which nothing can repeal or obstruct.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
~ John Milton
Each must be discouraged, but not completely denied all possibility. Men, she had discovered, were ruled by their imaginations in that regard.
~ Robin Hobb
one explanation did not rule out the other, that charged electrons could be spirits, that nothing ruled out anything else, that mathematics was a rigorous form of madness
~ Louise Erdrich
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.
~ Leo Tolstoy
slang the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up. It is demotic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight.
~ Anthony Burgess
Abiding in Jesus is nothing but the giving up of oneself to be ruled and taught and led, and so resting in the arms of Everlasting Love. Blessed
~ Andrew Murray
Let it be is the theme that dominates his existence. He sees himself as being ruled by a dreamy mood of acceptance that was partly the source of all his happiness and partly his undoing.
~ Anne Tyler
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
~ John Milton
It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses.
~ Mark Rydell
I didn't believe in God, though I confess that on occasion I entertained the notion of a God who ruled with an extremely honed perverse sense of humor.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
There exists an exchange of trust between the ruler and the ruled. Abuse that from either direction and all mutual agreements are nullified.
~ Steven Erikson
Ah don't hate the English. They're just wankers. We are colonised by wankers. We can't even pick a decent, vibrant, healthy culture to be colonised by. No. We're ruled by effete arseholes. What does that make us?
~ Irvine Welsh