1.
It is dangerous for a ruler to trust others. He who trusts others can be manipulated by others.
Han Fei
It is perilous for a leader to rely on others. He who puts faith in others can be coerced by others.
2.
The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.
Zygmunt Bauman
3.
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
5.
Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.
Stanley Druckenmiller
6.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle
7.
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
8.
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
Will Durant
9.
When the ruler is obedient to God, God is his protector and friend.
Saadi
10.
Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.
Sun Myung Moon
11.
Stillness is the ruler of haste.
Laozi
12.
States will never be happy until
rulers become philosophers or
philosophers become rulers.
Plato
13.
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
Frank Herbert
15.
Convention is the ruler of all.
Pindar
17.
The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.
Laozi
18.
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
Lev Grossman
19.
The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.
Laozi
20.
Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will
Jerry Bridges
21.
We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.
Muhammad Ali