The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Stichwörter: politics elections hg2g rulers
Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay.
ThucydidesStichwörter: rulers commonwealth governments
If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse.
And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.
Stichwörter: politics insanity madness rulers plato aristotle kings emperors
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
Patrick HenryStichwörter: liberty chance rulers country rights
You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!
What has your politics fed on
since you've been ruling the world?
On butchery and murder!
Stichwörter: hypocrisy rulers governments politicians poltics
We have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule; rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can’t.
G.K. ChestertonIn the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
Thomas MoreStichwörter: peace war human-nature rulers government discovery
The world is ruled by cowards and cravens; brave men have put them there.
Damon MeredithStichwörter: bravery rulers cowardice government leadership coward leaders
...which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.
Geert HofstedeStichwörter: rulers leadership-styles
In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.
Kimberly DertingStichwörter: soul fantasy rulers queens kings ability social-class
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