Ruling Class Quotes

60 quotes by 49 authors

• The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize… — Albert Einstein
• ...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle… — Karl Marx
• 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 with… — Malcolm Wallop
• To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence… — Vladimir Lenin
• The economic owning class is always the political ruling class. — Eugene V. Debs
• Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. — Al Capone
• The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany — David Clennon
• If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler. — Esai Morales
• Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs. — Isaac Asimov
• I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the… — Eugene V. Debs
• They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit. — William Kittredge
• Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group… — Arthur Miller
• Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can… — Michael Parenti
• Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class. — P.J. O'Rourke
• The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers — Jean-Francois Lyotard
• You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the… — Gore Vidal
• Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to… — Sheila Jeffreys
• Pornography is not egalitarian and gender-free. It is predicated upon the inequality of women and is the propaganda that makes that inequality sexy. For women… — Sheila Jeffreys
• 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
• The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. — Bela Lugosi

Who Wrote These Ruling Class Quotes

49 authors contributed a total of 60 Ruling Class Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 8 Ruling Class Quotes by Karl Marx
• 2 Ruling Class Quotes by David Clennon
• 2 Ruling Class Quotes by Gore Vidal
• 2 Ruling Class Quotes by Sheila Jeffreys
• 2 Ruling Class Quotes by Eugene V. Debs
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Al Capone
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Paul Robeson
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Anne Roiphe
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Esai Morales
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Frank Herbert
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Isaac Asimov
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Chuck Klosterman
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by William Kittredge
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Christopher Hitchens
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Arthur Miller
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Mark Levin
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Michael Parenti
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Noam Chomsky
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Dave Brat
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Jack Schwartz
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by John Marshall Harlan
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Al Lewis
• 1 Ruling Class Quote by Iris Chang