He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

- Aristotle

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

- Blaise Pascal

I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in.

- Benedict Wong

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

- Catherine the Great

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

- Denis Waitley

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

- George R. R. Martin

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

- George W. Bush

A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

- Han Fei

I want to be Ruler of the Exumas. I like the sound of it. I want to become Kurtz and live like in 'Lord of the Flies.'

- Johnny Depp

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

- Mahatma Gandhi

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

A ruler isn't always straight.

- Robert Half

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

- Sun Tzu

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.

- Thomas a Kempis