#ruler

All fiction is to some degree contrived. If it is not contrived, then it actually happened, therefore making it a stolen idea. Ideas and concepts in this world, in our lives, and in our imagination are much more finite than any of us would care to believe. ↗

— Connor de Bruler

#imagination

A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#ruler #stupid #dragons

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#inflict #injuries #must #need #new

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. ↗

— Aristotle

#democracy #men #property #rulers

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. ↗

— Aristotle

#appearance #apprehensive #believing #consider #devotion

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. ↗

— Aristotle

#first #good #must #ruled #ruler

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#am #colour #deepest #dye #gratitude

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#about #account #brought #events #false

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down. ↗

— Charles Adams

#bring #catastrophe #create #down #expediency

It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had. ↗

— James Bovard

#few #forefathers #freedom #given #had