The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. Votes: 3
Felix FrankfurterRulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim. Votes: 3
Elias CanettiIt is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy. Votes: 2
Seneca the YoungerCircumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. Votes: 2
Samuel LoverReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. Votes: 2
Seneca the YoungerThe first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. Votes: 2
Niccolo MachiavelliIt has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. Votes: 1
Lester B. PearsonStates will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers. Votes: 0
PlatoI believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiPeople starve. The rulers consume too much with their taxes. That is why people starve. Votes: 0
LaoziWhy are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious. Votes: 0
LaoziGod is all powerful.God is mighty.God is has power over all rulers and authorities. Votes: 0
Laillah Gifty AkitaEveryone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn't look at coming changes. Votes: 0
Stanley DruckenmillerOur rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonWe are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. Votes: 0
Edward SnowdenThe inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. Votes: 0
Chris HedgesFollowing rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it. Votes: 0
Kool Moe DeeIn free governments the rulers are the servants and the people are their superiors and sovereigns. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinCorrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die. Votes: 0
Taylor CaldwellAll rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers. Votes: 0
George OrwellShe has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers! Votes: 0
Corey TaylorHow fortunate for leaders that men do not think (also, What luck for rulers that men do not think). Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerIf there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauThe once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell. Votes: 2 George W. Bush
In historical messianism, the reign of the Messiah is brought about by a Jewish ruler powerful enough to gather the Jewish exiles back to the land of Israel, reestablish a Torah government there, and rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Votes: 1 David Novak