“The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses.” — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“. . . the press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.” — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
“But the lesson of those years is that the ruling class can't be relied upon to redistribute wealth and power.” — Selina Todd Copy Share Image
The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within… — David Clennon Copy Share Image
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
“Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another—sometimes by one that… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We… — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“What a clever trap your Ruling Class set for us," he went on. "First the atomic bomb. Now this." "Trap?" I echoed… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“I confront the question of whether DEI initiatives are divisive and ineffective. The answer is yes on both counts, but not for… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“It therefore is necessary to consider the possibility that administrative law was an instrument of a class that took a dim view… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of the political elite is to privatize the air. So as not to destroy their own edifice of democratic… — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
“No society has succeeded in abolishing the distinction between ruler and ruled... to be a ruler gives one special status and, usually,… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit. — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Some members of the ruling class are making a concerted effort to expand the wealth gap. — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
“What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
