Rulership Quotes

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Frank Herbert
“Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.”
Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

Costanza Casati
“It is unwise to let a man who isn't king sit on a throne for too long.”
Costanza Casati, Clytemnestra

Louise Blackwick
“A day may come when all hope is lost; when the oceans run red with our blood, and our darkest hour is upon us— and when it comes, that red day of reckoning, we turn, my dears, not to our rulers-in-good-times, but to our leaders-in-bad-times.”
Louise Blackwick, The Weaver of Odds

Jeff Mach
“And sadly, fairytale kingdoms work poorly. It’s not just that they’re fairytales and thus not terribly real; we’ve seen stranger and more mythical attempts at leadership in our time. The problem is that Fairytales attract Good Faeries, and thus Bad Faeries; Evil Queens; Huntsmen, and, of course, The Grand Vizier. And all of those tend to lead to ruination.”
Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord

Gore Vidal
“A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness of which man is capable, enameled with manners and gilded with hypocrisy.”
Gore Vidal, Julian

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you!”
Michael Bassey Johnson

Will Durant
“Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last prefer tyranny to chaos. Equality of power is an unstable condition; men are by nature unequal; and 'he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.' Democracy has still to solve the problem of enlisting the best energies of men while giving to all alike the choice of those, among the trained and fit, by whom they wish to be ruled.”
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Rhiannon Thomas
“Rulership does not sit comfortably on any worthy head.”
Rhiannon Thomas, Long May She Reign

Sherry K. White
“Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.”
Sherry K. White

“To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).”
Sunday Adelaja

“Our comfort zone has been the suffocation of our dreams.”
Paul Brady

“As breathing is to life, prayer is to the Church. The breath of life comes into us; prayer rises within us, and communion with God becomes the most normal thing that there is...

We are pray-ers!
Our life is a prayer!
Our stance in God is a prayer.
Our place in Him is a place of prayer!

Prayer is what we build into our lives.
Prayer is what we become!
We are an outworking of how we work with Him.”
Paul Brady

Andrija Jonić
“A true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.”
Andrija Jonić

“When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.”
Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

Bernard Cornwell
“A lord who does not distribute wealth is a lord who will lose the allegiance of his men,”
Bernard Cornwell, The Last Kingdom

“There was no region changed by good preaching — regions were changed by praying into the realm of glory!”
Paul Brady

“If you are so busy in this life that you don't have time to tap into spiritual laws to learn them, then you're just working this planet by yourself.”
Paul Brady

“Fighting the Traditional Marriage is provoking God;Beheading Jesus is to lead the church without His rulership or Counsel.Woe to theme who”
Dr Paul Gitwaza

“The only area of strength for Satan’s rulership is in our area of ignorance.”
Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“When you live in light, you live under God’s rulership.”
Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“When you live in darkness, you live under the ruler-ship of the devil.”
Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).”
Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.”
Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“Jesus became the Door and gave us access to that supernatural realm we could not see!”
Paul Brady

Livia Blackburne
“The first female empress in history is hardly everyday politics. You must have some thoughts about her qualifications.”
“There’s more to ruling than ability,” said Mulan, unable to fully disguise the bitterness in her voice. “The most competent man in the world will drive a country to ruin if he wields his power for his own gain. A ruler needs to be honest and honorable, to rule with the good of the country in mind.”
Livia Blackburne, Feather and Flame

“I love hanging out with people who aren't afraid to be rich.”
Jordan G Kobos

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Governments rule people.
Thoughts rule the world.”
Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Giambattista Vico
“Governments must conform to the nature of the people governed. This axiom indicates that, by the nature of human civil institutions, the public school of rulers is the morality of the people.”
Giambattista Vico, New Science

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