As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.
We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
The world cannot be governed without juggling.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
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