“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 is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
“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
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. — Chuck Klosterman 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
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
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 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
For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody… — Jay S. Walker Copy Share Image
“I think it came from being a ruling class, from never being able to show weakness to the people they have conquered… — Peter Cunningham Copy Share Image
“[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and… — Edward Bond 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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 ruling class is opposed to the lower class—that is, ‘closed’ to the outside—insofar as it ‘excludes, restricts, or makes admission conditional.’… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“But after living in Communist China for the past seventeen years, I knew that such a society was only a dream because… — Nien Cheng Copy Share Image
“Since the 1990s, the ruling class of China has endeavoured to produce an ideological fantasy through the machinery of propaganda development (increase… — Chen Qiufan Copy Share Image
The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of… — Angelo Codevilla Copy Share Image
America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image