Top 21 Rulers Quotes - Quoted Daily

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.

Trust Others, Dangerous, Rulers

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

Weapons, Rationality, Rulers

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

Walt Whitman

Ignorance, Democracy, Rulership

Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.409, Penguin

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

Leon Trotsky

Destiny, Rulership, Firsts

Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.15, Haymarket Books

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

Cato the Elder

Worst, Rulers

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

Julian Assange

Over You, Ignorant, Rulers

Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.

Stanley Druckenmiller

Past, Looks, Rulers

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Aristotle

Military, Firsts, Rulers

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Cardinal Richelieu

Quality, Ability, Rulers

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

Will Durant

Tools, Rulers

Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1953). “The Renaissance: A History of Civilization in Italy from 1304-1576 A.D.”, p.410, Simon and Schuster

When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.

Saadi

Obedience, Rulers, Obedient

Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

Sun Myung Moon

Live Your Life, Measuring, Rulers

"The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 2-2 Character), 1980.

Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

Myles Munroe

Relationship, Marriage, Rulership

Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.51, Destiny Image Publishers

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Laozi

Taoism, Haste, Rulers

Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.

Myles Munroe

Makeup, Rulership, Earth

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Plato

Philosopher, States, Rulers

Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.15, Modern Library