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"The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change."
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Ruler"There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of States, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just."
A ruler is an instrument used to make length measurements, whereby a length is read from a series of markings called "rules" along an edge of the device. Alternatively, it is called a rule, scale, line gauge, or metre/meter stick. Usually, the instrument is rigid and the edge itself is a straightedge, which additionally allows one to draw straighter lines. Rulers are an important tool in geometry,
"The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change."
"שָׂרֶ֣יהָ בְקִרְבָּ֔הּ כִּזְאֵבִ֖ים טֹ֣רְפֵי טָ֑רֶף לִשְׁפָּךְ־דָּם֙ לְאַבֵּ֣ד נְפָשֹׁ֔ות לְמַ֖עַן בְּצֹ֥עַ בָּֽצַע׃"
"“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” asked Henry II as he instigated the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket, in 1170. Down through the ages, presidents and princes around the world have been murderers and accessories to murder, as the great Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin and Walter Lunden documented in statistical detail in their masterwork Power and Morality. One of their main findings was that the behavior of ruling groups tends to be more criminal and amoral than that of the people over whom they rule."
"Virgin Justice, Zeus own daughter, Honored and revered among the Olympian gods ... Sits down by the Son of Kronos, her father, And speaks to him about mens unjust hearts Until the people pay for their foolhardy rulers Unjust verdicts and biased decisions. Guard against this, you bribe-eating lords. Judge rightly. Forget your crooked deals."
"Tout institution qui ne suppose pas le peuple bon et le magistrat corruptible est vicieuse."
"The people ... have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers."