Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
Jonathan Sacks
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The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Thomas a Kempis
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Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
E. T. Bell
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I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in 'Lord of the Flies.'
Johnny Depp
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The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Denis Waitley
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The object of rewards is to encourage; that of punishments, to prevent. If rewards are high, then what the ruler wants will be quickly effected; if punishments are heavy, what he does not want will be swiftly prevented.
Han Fei
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle
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A wise ruler, when he makes his laws, is bound to find himself in conflict with the world.
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I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.
Sheikh Hasina
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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It 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.
James K. Polk
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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A ruler isn't always straight.
Robert Half
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The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.
George W. Bush
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The Way of an enlightened ruler is to make it so that no minister may make a proposal and then fail to match it with actions and results.
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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Sun Tzu
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Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation.
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
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When an enlightened ruler controls his ministers, he makes it so that ministers cannot get credit for achievements gained by overstepping the bounds of their offices or make proposals and then fail to match them with actual achievements.
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