 Quote > The art of rulingA world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! Continued at top
Owned by Insignis - Created on 06/22/2005 - Last edited on 07/24/2005  12/25/06 :: Folder :: Government & Politics05/21/06 :: Thing :: Dune :: Classic sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, 196511/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture07/24/05 :: Person :: Frank Herbert  06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamOnce, men turned thinking over to machines in the hopes that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. 01/17/08 :: Quote :: Gurney HalleckI'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me--all bearing for someone else to pick.   12/01/03 :: Quote :: Abraham Lincoln
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness o [...] 10/09/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamYou've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind. 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Paul AtreidesA process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. (The First Law of Mentat) 07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: United States divorce statistics07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: World-wide divorce statistics06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank HerbertI must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. 12/20/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Movie Ratings11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.  11/06/05 :: Article :: Why should christians be surprised? :: 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen Mohiam'That which submits rules.' ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows -- a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose. 06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank Herberthe fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its vi [...] 04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.  12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Legal Information Institute - Marriage: an overview 09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass02/26/08 :: Quote :: Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess IrulanDo you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly. 02/18/04 :: Article :: Civil Disobedience and other meaningless buzzwords. :: The Los Angeles Gay Marriage Contraversy02/03/04 :: Article :: Attack of the Linux geeks! :: They're all a bunch of commie terrorists, out to get SCO, don't you know?01/17/08 :: Quote :: "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain." 01/16/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Weekly Standard - Marriage Defeatists09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution. 05/20/04 :: Article :: The power to make people listen :: When you talk, does the world stand still?02/17/04 :: Article :: Justice and Power ...and nearly Powerless Justice :: Almost nobody is looking out for you02/17/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Hnida's story 11/26/03 :: Article :: Same God? :: Christianity ... Islam ... Judaism ... Are they all just worshiping the same God? 03/30/09 :: Article :: The Abortion Debate Is Stupid. :: It seriously is.02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!11/21/03 :: Article :: Knight to Cell block C3. :: Crack is the incorrect way to kill a fetus11/16/05 :: Quote :: Louis D. Brandeis, US Supreme Court JusticeThe greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.  10/07/04 :: Article :: The Election :: Are we sick of the candidates yet?09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mae WestMarriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
09/04/03 :: Quote :: O'RourkeIf government were a product, selling it would be illegal. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Adolf Hitler (disputed)What luck for the rulers that men do not think! 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. 08/29/08 :: Quote :: Harry S TrumanWhenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. 08/26/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: Inside Ronald Reagan08/01/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. 07/31/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonYet it is easy to foresee, from the nature of things, that the encroachments of the State governments will tend to an excess of liberty which will correct itself, while those of the General Government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day. 07/08/05 :: Quote :: GhandiI believe that no government can exist for a single moment without the co-operation of the people, willing or forced, and if people suddenly withdraw their co-operation in every detail, the government will come to a standstill. 07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Republican Party Platform (2000)07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Green Party Platform (current)07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Democratic Party Platform (2000)06/30/03 :: Article :: Please enter your date of birth and gender :: Fighting for individuality in a world that doesn't care05/30/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: U.S. Libertarian Platform (current)04/18/04 :: Quote :: Henry Stimson (Secretary of State)... gentlemen do not read each other's mail. 04/07/04 :: Quote :: Theodore RooseveltTo announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. 02/25/07 :: Quote :: Bertrand RussellThere is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. 02/05/04 :: Article :: An Ounce of Prevention :: What if The People don't want to do what is good for them?01/28/08 :: Quote :: Hannah ArendtThe most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. 01/24/05 :: Quote :: Charles de GaulleThe graveyards are full of indispensable men. 01/22/04 :: Article :: The Real Voodoo :: The Recession argument is conducted poorly01/21/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Anti-Semitism: A Practical Manual |
