The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

The Security Council should be seen as the executive committee of the global security system set up after World War II. Its members, and…

— Kofi Annan

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

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,…

— Karl Marx

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital…

— Karl Marx

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.

— Noam Chomsky

“First, you need to understand the attitude that the current executive committee has toward IT," says Richter. "Do they believe that IT is a…

— Martha Heller

Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.

— Steve Hilton

Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments…

— John Trudell

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens.…

— John Marshall Harlan

The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens…

— Malcolm Wallop

Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class.

— Wendy Long

I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by…

— Dave Brat

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage…

— Bill Moyers

Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative…

— Anonymous

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…

— Jean Ziegler