Rulership Quotes

• The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Past, Secret

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.164, Arcturus Publishing

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• The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

  Walt Whitman

  Ignorance, Democracy, Purpose

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.409, Penguin

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• The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

  Leon Trotsky

  Destiny, Firsts, Revolution

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.15, Haymarket Books

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• The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Running, Stupid, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.309, Macmillan

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• Rulership is in our genes, dominion is in our makeup. We were designed to rule the earth.

  Myles Munroe

  Makeup, Earth, Dominion

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• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  Confucius

  Country, Countries Of The World, Government

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• God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.

  Kay Arthur

  Thank You, Bible, God

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.117, WaterBrook

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• Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Headship

  Myles Munroe (2005). “Purpose and Power of Love and Marriage”, p.51, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Freedom, Independent, Men

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

  Joseph Conrad

  Blessed, Fog, Achievement

  1915 Victory, author's note.

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