Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.

We’re a very expensive group; we break a lot of rule

No,” said the priest, “you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.” “Depressing view,” said K. “The lie made into the rule of the world.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

In vain, these economic royalists seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness, they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for. Now, as always, they stand for democracy, not tyranny; for freedom, not subjection; and against a dictatorship by mob rule and the over-privileged alike.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written

I’m vile and perverted. I’m obsessed and deranged. I’ve existed for years but very little has changed. I’m the tool of the government and industry too. For I’m destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I’m pernicious, but you can’t look away. I’ll make you think I’m delicious with the stuff that I say. I’m the best you can get… Have you guessed me yet? I’m the slime oozing out of your TV set.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

I’ve always had a sense of responsibility, whether I’ve been captain or not. But I must say that I’m both pleased and proud to be Portugal captain, despite how young I am, because I know what it means. My job is still the same though. I need to do what I do best out on the pitch, and that’s score goals and help my team win.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

You want to play the game, you’d better know the rules, love.

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law

Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.

You can live by your own rules

Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception.

That’s home. That’s us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

Life itself has no rules—that is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other

The less we understand of what our forebears sought, the less we understand ourselves. And thus, we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Neitzsche called, ‘the spirit of gravity.

My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be

I’ve set my own rules to live by. The first one is: ‘Never believe ANYthing the government says.