#rule

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #false #front #humanity #rule

Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#defeat #due #former #glory #humiliation

No man ruleth safely but he that is willingly ruled. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#ruled #safely #willingly

I was a good kid. My parents laid rules out for me, and I followed them. ↗

— Heidi Klum

#good #i #kid #laid #me

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been. ↗

— John Malkovich

#been #imminent #imminent threat #least #ruled

Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#any #cannot #congressional #differently #elected

Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#make #nothing #rules #since #them

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#common #common law #could #course #discipline

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#agenda #also #attack #bit #called

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross. ↗

— Michael Isikoff

#after #been #complaints #cross #detainees