Rulers Quotes

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
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.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The common man is in the majority, so the common man holds the most power, but unfortunately they give their power away to the few who tell them to do so. If a certain threshold of people believed in their hearts that a transition to a moneyless civilization would be best, it would manifest itself in the physical world.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?”
― Patrick Henry

“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response.
To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.”
― Larken Rose

“Antarctica. You know, that giant continent at the bottom of the earth that’s ruled by penguins and seals.”
― C.B. Cook, Twinepathy

“ In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.”
― Kimberly Derting, The Essence

“Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay. ”
― Thucydides

“Should I surrender to this bliss? The love, the touch of a child!”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“In marriage, we’re equals. You’re not only a babymaker; I didn’t need to marry you if it was only for that. You’re my life partner. The whole nine yards of it.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse.

And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder!”
― Charles de Coster, The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders & Elsewhere

“Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.”
― Louis L'Amour, Comstock Lode

“...which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.”
― Geert Hofstede, Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind

“We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Rulers define the proper, and the world of duality eventually sieves out the improper.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“But men are shortsighted. Especially when a heavy crown is blocking their eyes.”
― Julie Leong, The Teller of Small Fortunes

“People like me, we’re ants, and rulers are just a big foot looming over us ready to squish us into the dirt. Doesn’t matter whose body the foot is attached to, the purpose is still the same.”
― Maya Motayne, Nocturna

“When I was an authority on many subjects, I found myself subject to the authorities.”
― Aegelis, Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light

“You say it like that's not the ambition for all rulers? Even the smallest man given the taste of power is bound to abuse it.”
― E. G. Sparks

“Don’t it s’prise you de way dem kings carries on, Huck?”

“No,” I says, “it don’t.”

“Why don’t it, Huck?”

“Well, it don’t, because it’s in the breed. I reckon they’re all alike.”

“But, Huck, dese kings o’ ourn is reglar rapscallions; dat’s jist what dey is; dey’s reglar rapscallions.”

“Well, that’s what I’m a-saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“صحيح أن الحرية يكرهها أكثر الحكام ورجال الدين .. ولكن لابد من قدر كبير منها ليكون هناك حكم ودين”
― أنيس منصور, في السياسة الجزء الثاني

“Ashoka's political and moral philosophy, as he expressed it in his imperial inscriptions, initiated a tradition of religious tolerance, non-violent debate and a commitment to the idea of happiness which has animated Indian political philosophy ever since. But - and it's a big but - his benevolent empire scarcely outlived him. And that leaves us with the uncomfortable question of whether such high ideals can survive the realities of political power. Nevertheless, this was a ruler who really did change the way that his subjects and their successors thought.”
― Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects

“Revolution and selfishness are interrelated. Sometimes, it happens because the rulers are selfish; sometimes, the protesters are!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“বিপ্লব এবং স্বার্থপরতা পরস্পর সম্পর্কযুক্ত। কখনও কখনও, এটি ঘটে কারণ শাসকরা স্বার্থপর; কখনও কখনও, প্রতিবাদকারীরা!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“There are no good kings, but there are fair ones.”
― Chloe Gong, Immortal Longings

“there are two kinds of sovereigns: those that see all with their own eyes, and govern their states themselves, and those that rely on the honesty of their ministers and are ruled by whoever gets power over their minds.”
― Franz Mehring, Die Lessing-Legende

“If you had asked the rulers of history's greatest empires—the Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, the British Empire, and the Ottoman Empire—a decade before their fall where they envisioned their realms ten years hence, they would have spoken of grand futures and the vast endeavors still awaiting them.”
― Jag DeSaint

“A poem for the rulers of nations.

"Heavy lies the head that bears the crown,
A weight of power, from dusk to dawn.
In regal halls, with scepter and throne,
The ruler's heart carries burdens unknown.

Heavy lies the head, but it bears the weight,
Of destiny's hand, of a kingdom's fate.
Through trials and triumphs, they must lead,
For the crown they wear is the nation's need.

Served with platters of rumours and hate,
Still they feed our nations from a selfless plate.
Endless gossip and selfish press,
Yet they take the punch with no regret.

With grace and strength, they rise above,
Their duty to cherish, their people to love.
In the realm they govern, their hearts resound,
For heavy lies the head that wears the crown.”
― Anje Kruger

“Note the difference between leaders and rulers. Leaders are mostly found in the developed countries. Rulers abound in the developing countries.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu