#ruler

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#conscious #earth #given #highly #make

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ↗

— Jan Masaryk

#dictators #good #last #look #minutes

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#defeat #due #former #glory #humiliation

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#degenerates #every #government #only #people

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#obey #only #ruler #safe #who

Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

#hanged #man #nature #rather #rope

In 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. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#ages #beyond #christianity #conversion #court

Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

#accepted #book #civil #civil disobedience #disobedience

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#citizens #democracy #end #law-abiding #ruled

Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#between #bondage #contract #family #king