Words matter. These are the best Rule Quotes from famous people such as Claire Scovell LaZebnik, Katharine Gun, Timothy D. Snyder, Richard Lugar, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.
If my own country is subverting the rule of law and sending its own citizens, its military, into harm’s way on the basis of lies and propaganda, I would argue that being a patriot is calling out those lies and saying, ‘No, you don’t send our military into harm’s way with no legal justification.’
It is aspiring tyrants who say that ‘civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.’ Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the rule of law find other ways to speak about real terrorist threats, and certainly do not invent them or deliberately make them worse.
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.
We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.
The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom’s international legal obligations.
The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Here is the simple but powerful rule… always give people more than they expect to get.
It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
The ‘black rule’ is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country’s unemployment rate.
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others what you’d have them do unto you.
For me, my rule in this industry is I’ve got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.
My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.
The way that I’ve always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.
The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.
I think that Jews – because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives – are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.
I’ve learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don’t lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I’ve made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I’ll disrupt it.
The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
It is poor rule that won’t work more ways than one.
At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason – do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we’d be OK, as long as a masochist wasn’t in charge of people.
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of individuals (Arab or Muslim) be trampled upon, or that populations are targeted and discriminated against in the name of the war against terrorism.
Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it’s fundamental.
When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was… Well, we didn’t have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we’re working.
My coach, Liang Chow, had one rule while I was training for the 2008 Olympics: no skiing. I could do anything I wanted outside the gym, he said, except ski.
As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.
I don’t work a five-day week as a rule, and I’ve managed to fill that time up. It hasn’t been that hard. I volunteer at school. I’m working because I love it. Yet, I don’t not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.
Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.
Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.
A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society’s resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
I don’t like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it’s important I take mushrooms and acid. They’re certainly not addictive, so I can’t rule that out.
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
For me, the dumbest rule is that you can’t chew gum in school.
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that’s not working, you’ve got nothing.
The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the independence of the judicial system, which is one of the pillars of maintaining a democratic system.
Nobody should be allowed to fund political parties unless they pay at least 30% tax on all income above the median wage. If that rule applied, the Tory party would be bankrupted overnight.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.
I’m never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I’m doing now, I never intended to do.
By ancestry, I was born to rule.
I always used to say hybrids would rule the world – people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.
To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.
The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.
Ineptitude and negligence directed British policies in India more than any cynical desire to divide and rule, but the British were not above exploiting rivalries.
Since achieving their independence in 1992, the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law, respect for human rights, and a free market economy.
There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve got it.
The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.
Right after 9/11, I mean, every agency can give their own gradation, but a nice, popular rule of thumb is everybody doubled down. I ended up in the NSA with about twice as much money as I had prior to 9/11.
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
I’m accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
I violated, apparently, an unspoken rule that we are supposed to take care of our own. Frankly, if that invites discomfort, I welcome it. I don’t think there’s enough discomfort in journalism, especially in Washington.
