For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.
If every planet in the Patriarchy refused to be ruled, we all would be free.
Men are especially intolerant of serving and being ruled by, their equals.
The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it. " Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong. "
Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled.
Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.
The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.
We are ruled by quotations.
For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U. S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional.
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.
Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.
A federal court has ruled that the U. S. Postal Service must reduce its stamp prices. The change in stamp prices is expected to affect as many as seven Americans.
The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.
QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
. . . if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.
The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.
Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are.