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

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.

Operationally God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it all its inhabitants and all contained in its realm.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.

There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till philosophers become kings in this world or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

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

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine though I have not quarrelled with him?

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

Democracy is when the indigent and not the men of property are the rulers.

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

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

History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races but the happiness of common man.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.

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

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

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

It is hard to know how many people do but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers nowadays very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.