“I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power”
Catullus
“People change-- you have no right to ask them where their "real" selves have gone.”
mishxoxo
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest”
Bible
“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.”
Walt Whitman
“The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.”
William Beveridge
“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.”
Yitzhak Rabin
“The problem with the rich young ruler was not that he had riches but rather that the riches had him”
Gary Neitzke
