“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but… — Kenneth Kaunda Copy Share Image
The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill… — James Lafferty Copy Share Image
President Chavez has always been a loyal friend of Gaddafi, assassinated in the crudest way possible. Europe should think about the bombings… — Nicolas Maduro Copy Share Image
God sees the minds (ruling principles) of all men bared of the material vesture and rind and impurities. For with his intellectual… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that… — E. W. Scripps Copy Share Image
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
There is only one line of sight that will bring order to all our life and work: a vision of Christ seated… — Mel Lawrenz Copy Share Image
Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here. — Donald Tusk 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
Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I returned to Kabul after a 27-year absence. I came away with some optimism but not as much as I had hoped… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
