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Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. -- Charles Hodge
One hardly saves a world without ruling it. -- Emile M. Cioran
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. -- Richard Whately
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. -- Ivo Andric
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. -- Louisa May Alcott
Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses. -- Henry Giroux
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Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. -- Baltasar Gracian
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. -- Karl Marx
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. -- Gore Vidal
I don't want a rainbow... Rainbows have too many colors and none of them receive the appreciation they deserve... I'd prefer a fading red or a striking golden, a shimmery silver or a sober blue... Ruling the sunset sky alone! -- Debalina Haldar
[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for instance, that economics should govern all of social life, to such a degree that it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge it. -- Henry Giroux
On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos. -- August Strindberg
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. -- Al Capone
The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly. -- Vincent Bugliosi
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. -- Plato
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. -- Ed McMahon
I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip. -- John Bolton
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. -- John Ruskin
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. -- Alexander Pope
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. -- Nicholas II
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. -- Thomas Clarkson
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. -- Noam Chomsky
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. -- Gore Vidal
If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite. -- Cal Thomas
It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life -- Hjalmar Schacht
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. -- Albert Einstein
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it. -- Karl Marx
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me. -- Oswald Chambers
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. -- Karl Marx
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. -- Hjalmar Schacht
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. -- Imran Khan
I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out. -- Jeff Greene
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. -- Gloria Steinem
I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany. -- David Clennon
But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. -- John Marshall Harlan
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! -- Karl Marx
My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine. -- bell hooks
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We are asking Nigerians for their cooperation. They shouldn't expect miracles to happen a couple of months after we've taken over because the destruction took so many years - 16 years of the ruling party's rule of this country. -- Muhammadu Buhari
I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism. -- Franka Potente
The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. -- Kavita Ramdas
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. -- Peter Kropotkin
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime. -- John Carter
A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor. -- Kyrsten Sinema
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. -- Juan Williams
Government is a ruling structured thuggery. -- Toba Beta
Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something. -- Henry Giroux
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. -- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world. -- John Diefenbaker
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. -- Diana Trilling
The economic owning class is always the political ruling class. -- Eugene V. Debs
The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. -- Karl Marx
If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler. -- Esai Morales
When a rules man gives you a ruling, that's it. Amen. -- Gary Player
We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea. -- Aristotle
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control. -- Seneca the Younger
Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. -- Sena Jeter Naslund
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. -- Nancy Pearcey
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest. -- Alexander Pope
I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics. -- Kenneth Clarke
The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. -- Charles Trevelyan
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled. -- Tacitus
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. -- Bertolt Brecht
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. -- Graham Greene
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. -- Doris Lessing
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. -- Jane Austen
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it. -- William Hazlitt
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger. -- Stephen Kinzer
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. -- Karl Kautsky
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people . -- Diogenes
It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it. -- Nabil N. Jamal
I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan. -- Chen Shui-bian
The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to -- Frederick Soddy
The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves. -- Walid Jumblatt
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on. -- James Connolly
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. -- Gerald Priestland
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. -- Nicholas II
Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it. -- Vikrmn
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert. -- Albert Camus
love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. -- Mary McCarthy
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. -- Bela Lugosi
The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it. -- Rachel Caine
Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't. -- Marcelo Gleiser
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. -- Pierre Corneille
I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling. -- Ron Barrier
A ruling government can't afford to publish history in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection. -- Toba Beta
A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here. -- Donald Tusk
The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals. -- Marge Piercy
You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive. -- Bryant McGill
The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good. -- George Whitefield
The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. -- Michael Pare
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. -- Hannah Arendt
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. -- Franz Grillparzer
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. -- Khalil Gibran
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. -- Khalil Gibran
Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population. -- Moshe Dayan
They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit. -- William Kittredge
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love. -- Stanley Hauerwas
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn. -- Aristotle
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. -- Max Stirner
The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically. -- Ari Fleischer
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. -- William Hazlitt
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. -- Christopher Hitchens
Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business. -- Robert Frost
In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider. -- Muriel Wace
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. -- Chuck Klosterman
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. -- George Bernard Shaw
There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power -- Prentice Mulford
There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country? -- Iris Chang
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. -- Walter Cronkite
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. -- Gore Vidal

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