Rulership Quotes

• 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.

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  Leon Trotsky

  Destiny   Rulership   Firsts  

  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.

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  Gregory David Roberts

  Running   Stupid   Men  

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

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

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  George Orwell

  Mistake   Past   Secret  

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

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

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  Myles Munroe

  Makeup   Rulership   Earth  

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• Headship is not rulership; it is leadership.

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  Myles Munroe

  Relationship   Marriage   Rulership  

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

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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.

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

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  Confucius

  Country   Countries Of The World   Government  

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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.

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  Louis D. Brandeis

  Freedom   Independent   Men  

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

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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

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  Walt Whitman

  Ignorance   Democracy   Rulership  

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

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

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  Joseph Conrad

  Blessed   Fog   Achievement  

  1915 Victory, author's note.

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