Ruling Quotes

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

Canada's ruling circles seek to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire.

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workingmen of all countries unite!

I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term.

A ruling government can't afford to publish history in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection.

Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it.

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough.

The scripture talks about man managing, ruling the earth, as the sole duty of man.

Uncertainty is one of government recipes.

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.

It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it.

when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.