Ruled Quotes

“If you make peace without defense power,
then you should be really ready to be ruled.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“I don’t know what I’d do without you, Leon.”

And there it was. That unlocking inside him. That thing only she could do to him. That was why he had come. Why he would always come.

Marry me, he thought.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled

“Please put your shirt on,” she said.

He pulled it over his head, checking the buttons. “Better?”

She looked exhausted, and happy, and too bighearted to believe. So why did he still feel anguished? He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her onto his lap.

“Hey!” She laughed, hugging an arm around him.

He snuggled his nose in her hair and kissed her neck. Mine, he thought.

“They’ll see,” she muttered.

They’d better. “Let them. It’s legal.”

She laughed again and quickly kissed him. Finally.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled

“Why did you come?” Gaia asked, passing over his shirt.

“I wanted to see you,” he said.

“That’s all? No problem with the crims or anything?”

It seemed like so long ago that he’d left the crims to come into the village to find her. He fingered his shirt, which was all but dry. “No. Just you.”

“You’re awfully untalkative for a guy who came all this way to see me,” she said. He glanced up again, seeing the concern in her eyes when she smiled at him. His loneliness began to thaw.

“You were amazing in there, you know,” he said.

She shook her head, turning his hat in her hands. “I hope I didn’t boss you around too much. I can get a little single-minded.”

“Hardly at all. ‘Take yer boots off and git yerself in here,’” he drawled.”
― Caragh M. O'Brien, Ruled

“You are ruled by an insane government.”
― Steven Magee

“_They_ believe that the Ballot will rob them of their Power and Privileges, whereas _I_ am sure that, by the exercise of even such little Prudence and Cunning as parsimonious Nature has endowed them with, they can with ease maintain themselves in their present pre-eminence. This being so, let the Rabble amuse itself by voting. An Election is no more than a gratuitous Punch and Judy Show, offered by the Rulers in order to distract the attention of the Ruled.”
― Aldous Huxley, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan

“Rulers craft stories, the ruled listen.”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Ending Syria's Occupation of Lebanon: The U.S. Role

“What would the world be like if men never ruled again?”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“The world has always been ruled by violent people just as a jungle is ruled by a lion. Non-violent people have always had to submit to the onslaught of the violent people and lose their honour.The rule of non-violence i as utopian as the sheep ruling a jungle over lions.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“For those that are working in government departments that are engaging in frauds, you deserve to be ruled by evil people for facilitating it.”
― Steven Magee

“If He saw me at my very worst, when drugs, sex, and other fleeting pleasures ruled every portion of my heart, mind, and life, and still chose to die for me, He must still love me now. If He was patient with me when I was living solely for rebellion, He must also be willing to be patient with me now that my heart was softening and I was actually trying. I was still failing, but at least my heart wanted to honor Him now.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Psychopaths can only be ruled by Psychopaths.”
― Sino Melo

“Money rules the World, but there are People who rule the Money & because I am not to be ruled, I prefer to rule the People who rule the Money.”
― Sino Melo