#rule

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#first #him #intelligence #look #men

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

Unfortunately, in many cases, the rule book goes way too far - it tries to tell people how to be instead of explaining what we're trying to do.. We need recipes, not rules. ↗

— Howard Behar

#leadership

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#math #meaning-of-life #rules-of-life #life

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser. ↗

— Toba Beta

#law #life #preservation #preserve #rule

But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken. ↗

— Ilsa J. Bick

#life

People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#life #people #routine #rules #space

Tyrants have only one problem in life. They simply just wanna rule everything. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #problem #rule #simply #tyrants

The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#rules-of-life #life