Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves. — Walid Jumblatt Copy Share Image
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population. — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
Since I was gay and loved disco music, it was kinda pre-programmed that my first experiences with house music and acid -… — Justus Kohncke Copy Share Image
I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
To fill the human heart with compassion, mercy and universal love, which should radiate to all countries, nations and peoples of the… — Kirpal Singh Copy Share Image
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are delighted with today’s State Supreme Court ruling allowing marriage equality in California. It is a true testament to advancing equality… — Karen Bass Copy Share Image
Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration… — Karl Marx 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
I think Syriza and Podemos are very, very different from Sinn Féin in many ways, and so I wouldn't put all three… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image