“Beautiful military equipment don't rule the world, People rule the world. People.”
Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960) Iranian politician
Interview to CNN, January 7, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyH6QmFmeZE <br class="br">Interview to CNN
Madonna Timeline, CNN http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/madonna/timeline.html, <br class="br">When asked what she wanted to do, on "American Bandstand", 1983.
“Beautiful military equipment don't rule the world, People rule the world. People.”
Mohammad Javad Zarif (1960) Iranian politician
Interview to CNN, January 7, 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyH6QmFmeZE <br class="br">Interview to CNN
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown
David Lipscomb (1831–1917) Leader, American Restoration Movement
Source: Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny (1889), p. 73
Context: Human government, the embodied effort of man to rule the world without God, ruled over by "the prince of this world," the devil. Its mission is to execute wrath and vengeance here on earth. Human government bears the same relation to hell as the church bears to heaven.
Mike Myers (1963) Canadian- British- American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and film producer
Interviewed in Eugene Jarecki's The King (2017)
“The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.”
Michel Houellebecq book Atomised
Source: The Elementary Particles
“Not Nero, but God, rules the world.”
Henryk Sienkiewicz book Quo Vadis
Lygia to Marcus Vinicius, in Ch. 2
Quo Vadis (1895)
“Polish ladies rule the world”
Joanna Jędrzejczyk (1987) Polish mixed martial artist
UFC - "Polish ladies rule the world." Joanna Jedrzejczyk & Karolina Kowalkiewicz ready to put on a show at #UFC205!!, November 2, 2016, August 5, 2017 https://www.facebook.com/UFC/videos/10154514506546276/?fallback=1, <br class="br">After successful title defence against contender Karolina Kwalkiewicz at UFC 205 (November 2, 2016)
“As to the objection that these rules are common in the world”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
Context: As to the objection that these rules are common in the world, that it is necessary to define every thing and to prove every thing, and that logicians themselves have placed them among their art, I would that the thing were true and that it were so well known... But so little is this the case, that, geometricians alone excepted, who are so few in number that they are a single in a whole nation and long periods of time, we see no others that know it.
John Trudell (1946–2015) Native American rights activist, musician, poet
"We are Power" speech (1980)