Rule Quotes

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
― Plato, The Republic

“Any fool can make a rule
And any fool will mind it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Journal #14

“Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.
No!
If you save somebody's life three times, their life belongs to you. You saved my life today, that makes once. Save it twice more an I'm all yers.”
― Moira Young, Blood Red Road

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”
― Horace

“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
― Frank Herbert

“To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Every Other Day

“And for once a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift - Speak Now Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar

“And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie; in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.

The essential condition for the existence, and for the sway of the bourgeois class, is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labor. Wage-labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“Number rules the universe.”
― Pythagoras

“No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.”
― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel
When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Witches Of Avignon

“Be patient, child. Be calm. Be selfless. Wait for the right moment. Wait for your time. Rule with a steady hand. A steady heart.”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens

“By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

“If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. NEVER TO LIE TO YOURSELF.”
― Paulo Cohelo

“En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l'expérience, if faut généraliser; c'est une nécessité qui s'impose à l'observateur le plus circonspect.

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.”
― Henri Poincare, The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare

“Rule 1: The actions of confidence come first; the feelings of confidence come later.”
― Russ Harris, The Confidence Gap

“I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.”
― Herman Wouk

“In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
― James Madison

“Because it's always been you even when I didn't want it to be, even when it broke my heart over and over again. It's always been you.”
― Jay Crownover, Rule

“She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.”
― Eileen Wilks, Tempting Danger

“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

“We are so preoccupied with our own point of view that most of the time or we are searching for reasons to convert others to it. We feel that we are right as a rule and anything that contradicts is wrong.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“I try not to cringe. Dog-earing a book feels like a violation of some sacred unspoken rule.”
― Julie Murphy, Puddin'

“I scrubbed every inch of my body until it was pink and shiny, laughing hysterically because I had to use Rule's dude soap and ended up smelling like a seventeen-year-old boy who'd just discovered AXE body spray”
― Jay Crownover, Rule

“An important sign of the collapse of the rule of law is the rise of a paramilitary and its merger with government power.”
― Timothy Snyder , The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you want to rule the darkness, you must first rule the light!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan