Top 385 Ruler Quotes & Sayings

The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people.

The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

A ruler isn't always straight.

Philip of Spain is a ruler who has forgotten that a ruler is there to serve the people.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

Don't live your life as though you were measuring it with a ruler.

You're the ruler of the universe. Try to show a little taste!

Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

I devoted myself to the task of welfare of my countrymen - not as a ruler but as a servant.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.

The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

As during the time of kings it would have been naive to think that the king's firstborn son would be the fittest to rule, so in our time it is naive to think that the democratically elected ruler will be the fittest. The rule of succession is not a formula for identifying the best ruler, it is a formula for conferring legitimacy on someone or other and thus forestalling civil conflict.

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

A tolerant person should not be harrased. The subject or the ruled ones generally is loyal to the ruler. The people tak to revolt when they are helpless. The duty of the ruler is that his humble people mey not tak to revolt being suppressed by his bad polity. Considering the forbearance of the subject, do not ill behave with them so that they may feel oppressed.

Historically, Islam was hijacked about 20 or 30 years after the Prophet and interpreted in such a way that the ruler has absolute power and is accountable only to God. That, of course, was a very convenient interpretation for whoever was the ruler.

A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail.

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.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

Of course it’s not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

Convention is the ruler of all.

O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

It is better to be the servant of God than the ruler of men.

That realm is never long in quiet, where the ruler is a soldier.

The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers

Those who advice the ruler on the Way, do not want the world subdued with weapons.

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?” (…) A sigh of longing. “To be honest, I wanted to be ruler of the entire world. Or the ruler’s trophy wife.

There is, and always has been, one tremendous ruler of the human race - and that ruler is that combination of the opinions of all, the leveling up of universal sense which is called public sentiment. That is the ever-present regulator and police of humanity.

The hundred parts of the body are all complete in their places. Which should one prefer? Do you like them all equally? Are they all servants? Are they unable to control one another and need a ruler? Or do they become rulers and servants in turn? Is there any true ruler other than themselves?

The worst ruler is one who cannot rule himself.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons.

Weather is the indisputable ruler of the forest and every living thing in it.

Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action.

Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler.

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

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

The best jihad is to speak a word of justice to an oppressive ruler.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.

Stillness is the ruler of haste.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.