#rule

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#enough #even #few #few men #fewer

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#away #begin #democracy #learn #ourselves

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#allowed #anyone #capable #fact #facto

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#assert #deal #dealing #get #hard

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. ↗

— Samuel Alito

#case #judge #law #obligation #only

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#certain #certain way #door #foot #get

Always remember the first rule of power tactics; power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

#enemy #first #only #power #remember

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office. ↗

— Tom Allen

#bush #companies #energy #energy companies #gift

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#ask #bend #books #characters #determines

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#admit #another #class #country #dogma