Ruling Quotes

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We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again. — Johnny Vegas
The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you… — Jesse Ventura
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where… — Gore Vidal
In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida… — Juan Williams
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of… — Robert Anton Wilson
His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. — Jane Austen
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. — George Bernard Shaw
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct.… — Michel de Montaigne
A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for… — Marcus Aurelius
He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled… — Meredith Ann Pierce
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy… — Frank Herbert
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can… — Khalil Gibran
As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended… — Duke of Wellington
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. — Chuck Klosterman
Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on… — Karl Marx
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Khalil Gibran
The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it… — Albert Camus
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet… — Dorothy Parker

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