{"quotes":[{"text":"Righteousness is of God, the righteous Ruler.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","christianity","faith","god","religion","righteous","righteousness","ruler"],"id":38988,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"For the wealthy, money is a tool. For the impoverished, it is the rule.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["finance","financial-empowerment","financial-resources","impoverished","money","poverty","rule","ruler","tools","wealth","wealthy"],"id":55300,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bridges","build-bridges","corruption","democracy","educate","education","elections","ignorance","intellectualism","invest","knowledge","leader","leaders","leadership","library","moral","morality","peacemaker","politician","politics","president","presidential","presidential-elections","public-education","ruler","scholar","school","schools","suzy-kassem","values","vote","wall","walls","weapons","wisdom"],"id":64266,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"There is no friendship between kings.","author":"Jayne Castel","tags":["ambition","friendship","kingship","ruler"],"id":86286,"author_id":"Jayne+Castel"},{"text":"The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.","author":"Robert A. Heinlein","tags":["absurd","adoration","creation","dream","evidence","expenses","fantasy","flattery","history","homo-sapiens","industry","lord","lord-god","petulant","prayers","preposterous","ruler","universe"],"id":100301,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Heinlein"},{"text":"Any fool with ambition and heartlessness can be a ruler.","author":"Tomichan Matheikal","tags":["king","leader","power","ruler"],"id":151826,"author_id":"Tomichan+Matheikal"},{"text":"Kshatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrained, lower class men or men without ambition to protect the sufferers cannot be placed on the seat as an administrator. Unfortunately in the age of Kali the lower class men without training occupy the post of a ruler by strength of popular votes and instead of protecting the sufferers, such men create a situation quite intolerable for everyone. Such rulers illegally gratify themselves at the cost of all comforts of the citizens, and thus the chaste mother earth cries to see the pitiable condition of her sons, both men and animals.","author":"A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda","tags":["government","hare-krishna","hindu","kali-yuga","king","ruler","warrior"],"id":166601,"author_id":"A.C.+Bhaktivedanta+Swami+Prabhup%C4%81da"},{"text":"We can rely on the righteous Ruler.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","inspirational","righteous","ruler"],"id":176143,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Whatever you begin will see the light of day provided you can dream big and be a ruler over your dreams with persistent actions.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["actions","begin","big-dreams","commence","dream-big","endure","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","light","persevere","persist","persistent","proceed","rule","ruler","start","start-up","succeed","success"],"id":192192,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A true ruler does not rule others, he rules himself.","author":"Andrija Jonić","tags":["himself","life","life-philosophy","life","ruler","ruler-of-the-world","rulers-of-countries","rulership","rules","thyself"],"id":220125,"author_id":"Andrija+Joni%C4%87"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}