Quotes with rulers

  • If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

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  • Martin Luther An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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 Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Samuel Lover Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
    Samuel Lover
    English-Irish composer, songwriter and painter (1797 - 1868)
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  • Aristotle Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Alfred Korzybski If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.
    Alfred Korzybski
    Polish-American independent scholar (1879 - 1950)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Michael Isenberg Rulers were made to be broken.
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field...
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Baron William Henry Beveridge The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man.
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  • Plato To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ambrose Bierce An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Ambrose Bierce History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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