Top 100 To Rule Quotes
#1. But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.
Daniel Quinn
#2. He held up his index finger. "Rule one: in any dispute between mates, the
male is always to blame, even when he is clearly blameless. Rule two" - his middle finger joined the
first - "whenever in doubt, refer to rule one.
C.L. Wilson
#3. The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.
Matthew Henry
#4. It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
Barbara Castle
#7. The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
Marianne Williamson
#8. The U.S. should come out openly and say to the world, "We are the only imperial power, and we're going to rule you, and if you don't like it you can lump it."
Tariq Ali
#9. His Kingdom on this earth was to rule the visible world of man from the invisible realm of the spirit.
Myles Munroe
#10. The desire to rule over others, the will to power, is one of the greatest crimes that man has committed.
Rajneesh
#12. I'm not God, but I'm working within my own means as an artist and a person, and I possibly have more power than God does, in whatever form he has, if he exists, because I can work without the overarching ambition of wanting to rule over everything. I can work just for the heck of it.
Raymond Pettibon
#13. Cause for a moment a band of theives in ripped up jeans got to rule the world!
Taylor Swift
#14. I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
Madonna Ciccone
#15. It is no secret to anyone that we are going to rule in the most delicate circumstances Spain has faced in 30 years.
Mariano Rajoy
#16. Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe
#17. Few things are more commonly misunderstood than the nature and meaning of theocracy. It is commonly assumed to be a dictatorial rule by self-appointed men who claim to rule for God. In reality, theocracy in Biblical law is the closest thing to a radical libertarianism that can be had.
R.J. Rushdoony
#18. I took the medallion out and examined it again. To be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd have blinked if I'd seen the phrase One Ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them stenciled on one side.
Michael Angel
#19. He aspires to rule my Barony, yet he cannot rule himself.
Frank Herbert
#20. I want the seals of power and place, the ensigns of command, charged by the people's unbought grace, to rule my native land. Nor crown, nor scepter would I ask but from my country's will, by day, by night, to ply the task her cup of bliss to fill.
John Quincy Adams
#21. If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln [New Mexico.] Advise persons never to engage in killing.
Billy The Kid
#22. My nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.
Elizabeth Peters
#23. How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.
Stacy Schiff
#24. God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us.
R.C. Sproul
#26. Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
William Allen White
#27. The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.
Ayn Rand
#28. For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man.
Hannah Arendt
#29. I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.
William The Silent
#30. I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to hide, and more ways for them to find safe habitats. So this means that rats are set up to rule the Earth, but most of us already knew that. Now you know why.
Annalee Newitz
#32. That Massachusetts Bay Colony had been set up in England as a corporation, enabling one hundred white male religious fanatics to elect their leader to rule in a completely totalitarian way.
Larry Kramer
#33. Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey
#34. If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas.
George Eliot
#35. The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
James C. Maxwell
#36. You can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Will Durant
#37. I'm going to rule, Val, I'm going to have control of something. But I want it to be something worth ruling.
Orson Scott Card
#38. I'm not going to rule out running for a second term. But, I think you have to be psychologically prepared to walk away from the job after four years. It's the only way that you cannot be influenced by those special interests.
Dick Murphy
#39. I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.
Juan Cole
#40. The question is not how to get good people to rule; THE QUESTION IS: HOW TO STOP THE POWERFUL from doing as much damage as they can to us.
Karl Popper
#41. The law?" I asked curiously. "What law's that, Leo?"
"The law of service. He who wishes to live must serve, but he who wishes to rule does not live long.
Hermann Hesse
#42. Paradoxically, Islam is the most decentralized and yet, at the same time, the most rigid religion in the world. Everyone feels entitled to rule out free discussion.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#43. WHEN WE SEEK TO RULE ONLY OURSELVES, WE ARE EACH OF US KINGS.
Nicholas Eames
#44. Look for wisdom and keep looking until you find it. When you do find it, you will become troubled. When you become troubled, you will be amazed, and you will come to rule the world.
Kenneth Hanson
#45. RICHARD PLANTAGENET, DUKE OF YORK:
Let them obey that knows not how to rule.
William Shakespeare
#46. Your life is your own. I just get to rule it now and then.
Cherise Sinclair
#47. Those pissing contests are how lords judge one another's strength, and woe to any man who shows his weakness. A woman must needs piss twice as hard, if she hopes to rule. And
George R R Martin
#48. Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
John Dryden
#49. Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.
Valerie Jarrett
#50. He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.
Rafael Trujillo
#51. This is a hard land and the people are used to death. If I am to rule them, they must know that to face me is to be destroyed. They must be afraid, Chakahai. It is the only way.
Conn Iggulden
#52. The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.
Louisa May Alcott
#53. Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.
Ozzy Osbourne
#54. I could understand ignorance, but I could not accept its glorification, still less its right to rule.
Jung Chang
#55. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
Douglas Adams
#56. Nothing," she said softly. "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything she has to her people. Even her life.
Richelle Mead
#57. Beneath your skin are muscles. Learn to use them. It is your face. Your cheeks, your lips, your ears. Smiles and scowls should not come upon you like sudden squalls. A smile should be a servant, and come only when you call it. Learn to rule your face.
George R R Martin
#59. People talk whether you're in school or not, but it doesn't dictate anything. You choose how much you allow people to rule you.
C.M. Owens
#60. Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
J.L. Austin
#61. he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?
Octavia E. Butler
#62. My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth.
Mario Puzo
#63. As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
Alberto Manguel
#64. There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
#65. With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love's laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men's minds is set in place!
Boethius
#66. People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge.
Laozi
#67. I don't aspire to rule the world. I just want to rule my world.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#68. I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.
Tom Holland
#69. Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
#70. In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#72. The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
H.L. Mencken
#73. I don't appreciate people when they judge someone with their appearance but not their feelings. It feels like they want to rule that person for rest of their life.
Kiran Arshad
#74. The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party.
Tina Fey
#75. The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
Annie Besant
#76. Fallacy, Fallacy. - He cannot rule himself; therefore that woman concludes that it will be easy to rule him, and throws out her lines to catch him;-the poor creature, who in a short time will be his slave.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#78. Her ancestors would fight for her spirit, but so too would the white devils who had come to rule. They had taken first our land and then our souls.
Selina Siak Chin Yoke
#79. To be a queen , do you have to rule a country or marry a king? Not necessarily---there are other ways to be considered royal today. For example, take Elizabeth Taylor or Jacqueline Onassis. Would you dare to call either of these grand dames less than regal?
Kris Waldherr
#80. The surest way for those who want to rule
is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet.
Seneca.
#81. For PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR.
William J. Federer
#82. If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.
Giacomo Casanova
#83. Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man. The progress from these is the same in all cases - less government.
Herbert Spencer
#84. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule? Well,
Octavia E. Butler
#85. Strong features, firm, grim mouth, - all energy, decision, will, - were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me
Charlotte Bronte
#86. I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
Thucydides
#87. I think I will always have a place. I don't think I have to rule or reign but there's a place for me.
Linda Evangelista
#88. Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
Mark Helprin
#89. The jury, which is the most energetic means to make the people rule, is also the most effective means to teach them to rule.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#90. The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
Wadah Khanfar
#91. Some choose to be strong because they wish to rule others. Some choose to be strong because they wish to help others. Some choose to be strong because they've experienced the alternative and never want to be weak again. What
Blair Enns
#92. A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.
William Shatner
#93. But the power to rule meant the power to destroy - that was the darkness at the heart of ruling. It meant you had the power of life and death over people, and because you had the power, you thought that meant you had the right.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#94. Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on Earth to rule all of humanity.
Thomas Sankara
#95. O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
John Milton
#96. There are many ways to rule, many things required to be un hombre or to be una mujere, for each person can decide for himself. Sometimes you can even be both. Without having to choose one or the other
Mayra Santos-Febres
#97. No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
Frederick Scott Oliver
#98. So it's all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it's wrong if I'm not ready to settle for less?
Daria Snadowsky
#99. Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money ... A whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the belief they were enriching the country they were impoverishing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.
Myles Munroe
