#ruler

A ruler isn't always straight. ↗

— Robert Half

#ruler #straight

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#against #doing #his #interests #keep

...which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are. ↗

— Geert Hofstede

#rulers #leadership

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#been #easy #governments #incite #man

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have. ↗

— Thomas More

#government #human-nature #peace #rulers #war

Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay. ↗

— Thucydides

#governments #rulers #business

In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#kings #lives #loss #queens #rulership

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#first #him #intelligence #look #men

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ↗

— Samuel Lover

#instruments #rulers #weak #wise

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#edge #god #line #ruler #scripture