Ruling Quotes

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire ...

Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: ...

A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country wel...