Ruler Quotes

“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

“The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

“Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Aaron wondered if the Sofanomin had also lulled him to sleep. He could feel the faint remnants of a strange dream; weird people in odd clothing, peculiar carriages that moved although no horses pulled them”
― Robert Reid, The Empress:

“The sign of a good leader is easy to recognize, though it is hardly ever seen. For the greatest leaders are those who share as equals in the trials and struggles, the demands and expectations, the hills and trenches, the laws and punishments placed upon the backs of those governed. A great leader is motivated not by power but by compassion. Therefore he can do nothing but make himself a servant to those whom he rules. Such a leader is unequivocally respected, and loved for loving.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“This world belongs to the weird ones, and the weird ones become kings.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“Kshatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrained, lower class men or men without ambition to protect the sufferers cannot be placed on the seat as an administrator. Unfortunately in the age of Kali the lower class men without training occupy the post of a ruler by strength of popular votes and instead of protecting the sufferers, such men create a situation quite intolerable for everyone. Such rulers illegally gratify themselves at the cost of all comforts of the citizens, and thus the chaste mother earth cries to see the pitiable condition of her sons, both men and animals.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“It would be something special," said Tamar, "to have a Grisha on the throne."

"She's right," added Genya. "To be the ones to rule, instead of just serve.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“An immovable object and an unstoppable force
don't exist in universe which ruled by single ruler.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“It's much more stimulating to be marginal, to act without recognition, than to receive public thanks.”
― Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

“_They_ believe that the Ballot will rob them of their Power and Privileges, whereas _I_ am sure that, by the exercise of even such little Prudence and Cunning as parsimonious Nature has endowed them with, they can with ease maintain themselves in their present pre-eminence. This being so, let the Rabble amuse itself by voting. An Election is no more than a gratuitous Punch and Judy Show, offered by the Rulers in order to distract the attention of the Ruled.”
― Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

“You see, that's the thing with conquerors, they cannot stop conquering, for then they would have to start ruling, and my guess is Jarasandh isn't as good a ruler as he is a conqueror.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“The very points of my character that are most commended mark me as unfit to reign: love of retirement and of studies inconsistent with business, a passion that has become inveterate in me for peace, for unwarlike occupations, and for the society of men whose meetings are but those of worship and of kindly intercourse, whose lives in general are spent upon their farms and their pastures.”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: Volume I

“And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over the blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.

Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise.

Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice shard through my heart.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“It's either the rule of law or the law of the ruler.”
― Fuad Alakbarov

“Who rules here?’
I asked.
They said:
‘The People naturally.’

I said:
‘Naturally the people
but who
really rules?”
― Erich Fried, Wer herrscht hier

“Maybe you have to be a bit touched to be a ruler, good or bad. For, as the wise say, a sensible man looks after his garden and a coward looks after his money; a just man cares about his city and a crazy man cares about the government; and a wise man studies the thickness of fern-fronds.”
― Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

“Three days after that Emperor Ferret signed an insane decree: every man who wished to stay at court must be castrated. He was mad, no doubt of it; but the men who preferred mutilation to leaving the court were madder.”
― Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

“Reality is setting in, my lady,
You have no one who will save you-
But yourself.

This kingdom needs a ruler

And that ruler is you.”
― Maddy Kobar, Simply Not Meant To Be: Maddy Kobar's 2014-2018 Poems

“The love of the people is a ruler's surest shield against danger.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Before They Are Hanged

“…"A ruler must be of all his people, for one can only rule what one knows.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice

“In my eyes the only rightful King or Queen is the one who dissolves their kingdom and establishes a democracy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Sacrifice makes one king or queen, not bloodline.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Rightful King (The Sonnet)

The rightful king is one who dissolves the kingdom.
The rightful politician is one who dissolves the party.
The rightful ruler is one who wants only to serve.
The rightful citizen is always steadfast in accountability.
Long live the Queen and Heil Hitler are one and the same,
For both are sign of absolute allegiance without question.
Allegiance to king and country keeps a land uncivilized,
Allegiance to ideology and tradition destroys all ascension.
Let there be no king and queen, let there be no kingdom,
Let there be no party and let there be no authoritarianism.
The force that builds a world doesn't come from bloodline,
For character is beyond the grasp of our puny sectarianism.
In a civilized society we are all king, we are all policymaker.
The world advances when we advance as its fervent keeper.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“The true definition of "Supremacy" is far removed from 'dominace', but the ability to command respect, the very essence of wisdom and knowledge.”
― Tendai Kasusu

“I was born to rule, This crown of blood and lies was made for me.”
― J. Bree

“Regardless of whether it's me or someone else, there will always be a kingdom, a throne, and a queen.”
― Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Ace of Spades

“Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things...." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Killing a queen is legal only in chess.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov