Top 100 Quotes About Ruled
#1. No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock in death embrace with another, but behind them loomed the driving power of a population too large for its boundaries and its natural resources.
Margaret Sanger
#3. The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire - the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled by desire.
Paul O'Brien
#4. I'm opposed to censure, .. Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.
Henry Hyde
#5. What is so admirable in being ruled by a need for peace of mind ?
John N. Gray
#6. Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
Bertrand Russell
#7. My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.
Karolyn Grimes
#8. As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.
James Bovard
#9. 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.
Oscar Wilde
#10. Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility.
Patrick O'Brian
#11. ...empires were formed by wars of conquest, but ruled by deception."
The Professor, Hope's great-uncle and the builder of the time-machine.
Eve Human
#12. What would you do if you ruled the world?" The gigolo replied that he would abolish all laws. Barthes said: "Even grammar?
Laurent Binet
#13. If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.
Carrie Snow
#14. Ali ruled from 656 to 661 but believed Muhammad intended him to succeed him originally in 632, rather than Abu Bakr.
Zephyros Press
#15. I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.
Victor LaValle
#16. The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike ... Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
C.S. Lewis
#17. The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
Samuel Smiles
#18. The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon
Ken Kesey
#19. Women are not equal with men, that's sure. When the woman is in danger she always looks to the man for help. We are superior by nature. The black or white woman needn't worry in life because the world is ruled by the white man.
Muhammad Ali
#20. Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
Aristotle.
#21. A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.
Matt Smith
#22. Does he even know that little things he says and does, like that make me really happy or really depressed? It always seems like I'm ruled by him, never the other way around. Does Otani ever feel ruled by the things I say or do?
Aya Nakahara
#23. It seems that Russia today - dominated by, and accustomed to, autocracy and empire, and lacking strong civic institutions especially after the shattering of its society by the Bolshevik Terror - is destined to be ruled by self-promoting cliques for some time yet.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#24. Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.
Elliott Abrams
#25. Loyalty ruled this woman's soul, but loyalty needs a partner.
Mitch Albom
#26. So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another
Charles James
#28. By the late 1990s, it was almost as if the Orwellian scenario of the Mac's "1984" commercial had come true. Big Business, with a pair of capital B's, ruled computing. The drones used what they were told.
Brent Schlender
#29. After 1196 the vigorous merchant-aristocrats of Novgorod dominated the assembly that ruled the principality through its elected prince. The city-state was a free republic, and called itself "My Lord Novgorod the Great." If
Will Durant
#30. The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
Richard Sibbes
#31. Great men can't be ruled ... The great is the rare, the difficult, the exceptional.
Ayn Rand
#32. Three days ago we not only ruled the earth, we had survivor's guilt about all the other species we'd wiped out on our climb to the nirvana of round-the-clock cable news and microwave popcorn. Now we're the Flashlight People.
Stephen King
#33. Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.
Elizabeth Ironside
#35. I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.
V.S. Pritchett
#36. To eliminate statism is not to physically subdue the rulers, but to mentally liberate the ruled.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#37. Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men.
William L. Shirer
#38. The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.
Jalal Talabani
#39. We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.
Craig Venter
#40. Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.
Goswami Kriyananda
#41. It is good to be back in the Peoples House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the executive branch. The Supreme Court has even ruled that I am the executive branchhead, heart, and hand.
Gerald R. Ford
#42. If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again.
Morris Raphael Cohen
#43. BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.
William Kamkwamba
#44. It was a world ruled these days by the gun, the guitar, and the needle, sexier than sex, where the good right hand had become the male's primary sexual organ ...
Michael Moorcock
#45. Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.
Fareed Zakaria
#46. The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money.
Tadeusz Borowski
#47. I think the main benefit is that much of the traditional parenting that's being carried out today is so fear based and while the parent thinks they're in control they're really being ruled by fear. Everything is connected to fear.
Shefali Tsabary
#49. We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.
Gilbert Hernandez
#51. Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. It never ceased to amaze him how most nobles considered themselves so much better than the people they ruled, even though that rule was always no more than an accident of birth.
R.A. Salvatore
#53. Yeah,' said Ron. 'Could've been worse. Remember those birds she set on me?'
'I still haven't ruled it out,' came Hermione's muffled voice from beneath her blankets, but Harry saw Ron smiling slightly as he pulled his maroon pajamas out of his rucksack.
J.K. Rowling
#54. If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#55. 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.
Hannah Arendt
#56. I think I was about 16 when I first figured I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be a fighter pilot before that, but then I thought I don't want to kill people so that ruled that out.
Max Irons
#57. If I'm going to be ruled by a high-minded pretty-faced troll, it might as well be you."
"I'm glad to hear it," I said, trying not to smile. "Who knows what would happen to my ego if you decided to abandon me.
Danielle L. Jensen
#58. to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you'll give up on trying to master it.
Peter Thiel
#59. Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.
Keith Ferrazzi
#60. Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.
Claude Bernard
#61. Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.
Bill Murray
#62. Seventy years after Marx's death, one third of the human race lived under regimes ruled by communist parties which claimed to represent his ideas and realise his aspirations.
Eric Hobsbawm
#63. Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.
Jason Isaacs
#64. It wasn't so long ago that the world was ruled by testosterone-charged males - I remember what angry men are capable of." "That's
J.R. McLeay
#65. The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
Charles Hamilton Houston
#66. We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#67. Which god ruled your nameyear?"
"Sewing."
She squinted, then laughed.
He smiled a little, yet said, "You shouldn't laugh."
She laughed harder.
"Actually, I sew quite well.
Marie Rutkoski
#68. You must watch and wait, Branza, to see what powers you have and don't have. It is not like home. We ruled there. Everything fell into place around what we wanted. Here, we are not the only ones wanting, and we must make room for other people's desires.
Margo Lanagan
#69. Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors.
Terry Goodkind
#70. The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.
Anand Neelakantan
#71. It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.
Heraclitus
#72. Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. Even now, as a vampire, the fear of addiction ruled her world.
Would she ever be free?
Sara Humphreys
#74. While the saving message spread day by day, some providence brought from Ethiopia an officer of the queen, for that nation is still traditionally ruled by a woman.
Eusebius
#75. Once you've ruled out the impossible then whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth. The problem lay in working out what was impossible, of course. That was the trick, all right. There was also the curious incident of the orangutan in the night-time.
Terry Pratchett
#76. We should be more concerned with being ruled by fear than we are with being ruled by our imaginations.
Gregory Mapes
#77. Aquatic life-forms came into bring and evolved, but why did they have to emerge onto dry land, and turn into human beings who chose to lead lives ruled by time? These are real mysteries to me.
Naoki Higashida
#78. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
#79. I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.
Zoe Saldana
#80. When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.
Sally Kempton
#81. It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
Nandan Nilekani
#82. Stable government requires the free consent of those ruled. Tyranny, even the tyranny of benevolent despots, cannot bring lasting peace and prosperity. There
Ludwig Von Mises
#83. The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him, although the present governors of mankind are of a different stamp.
Plato
#84. While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.
Henry Rollins
#85. How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach?
Jeff VanderMeer
#86. Man created god upon his thoughts to externalize, to give form to his belief to give a reason for what they could do. The gods stole away the energies, let man believe he was ruled rather than that he rules.
Thomm Quackenbush
#87. Mr. DeMille's theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
Hedy Lamarr
#88. All I wanted was peace between our peoples. But I see now that this is not possible, for my people are ruled by a dreamer, and the jinn are rules by a monster.
Jessica Khoury
#89. A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#90. MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.
Ambrose Bierce
#91. You're ruled by things I can't compete with. Your rage trumps love, and hope, and faith.
Leylah Attar
#92. Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Denis Kearney
#93. In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Karen DeCrow
#94. You are born to rule or to be ruled. It's for you to decide which path to choose.
Vinita Kinra
#95. Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.
Martha Gellhorn
#96. We have not found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance that it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half which are ruled by the sons of kings.
Osama Bin Laden
#97. Writing my own novels in the '90s ... I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Mary Doria Russell
#98. It might have looked beautiful, had she not known what corruption and filth dwelt within it. And what monstrosity ruled over it all.
Sarah J. Maas
#99. For all his sourness, he was ruled by his heart.
Kim Harrison
#100. Ultimately our moral sense or conscience becomes a highly complex sentiment - originating in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, and confirmed by instruction and habit.18
Jonathan Haidt
