{"quotes":[{"text":"In the games of queens and kings, we leave our dreams at the door and we make do with what we have. Sometimes if we’re fortunate, we still manage to have a good life.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["dreams","kings","lives","loss","queens","rulership"],"id":14349,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["administration","capitalism","capitalistic","capitalistic-greed","capitalists","censorship","corporate-gain","corrupt","corruption","defunct","democracy","democratic","dysfunctional","empire","government","government-corruption","greed","greed-corruption","greedy","humanity","hypocrisy","interests","justice","leadership","money","nation","not-working","people","plutocracy","policies","profit","profit-drive","profitability","profits","rulership","social-system","social-systems","society","system","truth"],"id":37848,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Hence I think it is that democracies change into aristocracies, and these at length into monarchies,' people at last prefer tyranny to chaos. Equality of power is an unstable condition; men are by nature unequal; and 'he who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.' Democracy has still to solve the problem of enlisting the best energies of men while giving to all alike the choice of those, among the trained and fit, by whom they wish to be ruled.","author":"Will Durant","tags":["aristocracy","democracy","equality","government","monarchy","nature","politics","rulership","spinoza"],"id":165666,"author_id":"Will+Durant"},{"text":"When you live in light, you live under God’s rulership.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["danger","darkness","destruction","god","god-s-rulership","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","living-life","mountain","people","power","rulership"],"id":190387,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["danger","darkness","destruction","devil","devil-s-ruler","god","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","living","mountain","people","power","rulership"],"id":196033,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich detail every folly and wickedness of which man is capable, enameled with manners and gilded with hypocrisy.","author":"Gore Vidal","tags":["1962","355","court","hypocrisy","monarchy","rulership"],"id":202492,"author_id":"Gore+Vidal"},{"text":"To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["break-loose","danger","darkness","destruction","devil","dominion","embrace","god","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","manipulation","mountain","people","power","rulership"],"id":207274,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"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"},{"text":"Possession is not only when the devil plays hide and seek in your brain or poison your medula oblongata with negativity, but it is also when you are under the influence of the same specie as you!","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attack","aura","bewitch","bewitching","cage","command","coward","cowardice","demonic-attack","devil","domination","fear","influence","intoxicating","lukewarm","magnetism","mental-poisoning","mental-problem","michael-bassey-johnson","mind","mind-control","negative-power","obseqious","obsession","piety","possess","possession","power","respect","retreat","reverence","rule","rulership","sinister","submission","surrender","trails"],"id":293691,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["government","rulership","spacing-guild"],"id":293825,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}