No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
- Yitzhak RabinFor me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
- Mohandas K. GandhiA multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
- HomerAn unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
- Adrian CasanovaThe soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
- Adrian CooteOperationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
- Adrian LaingO Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb`d Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
- Aghason Anba PaulI have terrible handwriting. I now say it`s a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.
- Akhmed ZakayevRomanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.
- Alan FeducciaYou must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
- Alan StisselThe paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.
- Alberto LozanoIn the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
- Alfred ChanIt becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.
- Alfredo AlonsoThe only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
- Andrew CiferriCan anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
- Blaise PascalThus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reaching the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the members of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his subordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.
- Immanuel KantIf fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result is victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler`s bidding.
- Sun Tzu