It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth but as highly powerful conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Operationally God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it all its inhabitants and all contained in its realm.

The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes.

There will be no end to the troubles of states or of humanity itself till philosophers become kings in this world or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances conjectures and conjunctions.