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Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. -- Al Capone
If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler. -- Esai Morales
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
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. -- Bela Lugosi
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. -- Imran Khan
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
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. -- Rush Limbaugh
American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster. -- Noam Chomsky
In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class. -- Raul Castro
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
I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington. -- Dave Brat
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land. -- Jack Schwartz
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
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since. -- Tana French
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.' -- Steven Pinker
When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America. -- Anne Roiphe
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
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East. -- Paul Robeson
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been. -- Al Lewis
I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong. -- Mark Leibovich
For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon. -- Jay S. Walker
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 state is the executive committee of the ruling class. -- Karl Marx
The economic owning class is always the political ruling class. -- Eugene V. Debs
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. -- Doris Lessing
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. -- Karl Kautsky
You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive. -- Bryant McGill
The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals. -- Marge Piercy
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. -- Hannah Arendt
They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit. -- William Kittredge
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. -- Christopher Hitchens
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. -- Chuck Klosterman
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. -- Gore Vidal
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. -- Walter Cronkite
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again. -- Johnny Vegas
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The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it. -- Angelo Codevilla
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule. -- Karl Marx
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence. -- Confucius
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
Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs. -- Isaac Asimov
Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning of justice called Enlightenment. -- Charleston Parker
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
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers. -- Gore Vidal
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges. -- George Orwell
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy. -- Karl Marx
Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact. -- Erma Bombeck
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. -- George Orwell
Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all. -- Michael Parenti
Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist, was the obvious answer. -- George Orwell
I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe. -- John Trudell
The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes. -- Tom Segev
I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future. -- Joshua Wong
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. -- Gloria Steinem
The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance. -- Jean Ziegler
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. -- Tommy Douglas

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