Ruling Class Quotes

60 quotes by 49 authors

The saving of the Jews in Europe did not figure at the head of the list of priorities of the ruling class. It was the… — Tom Segev
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or… — Kavita Ramdas
People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as â€˜parasitesâ€™ fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by… — Jason Read
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to… — George Orwell
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in… — Tommy Douglas
We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the… — Walter Ciszek
We have power... Our power isnâ€™t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these… — John Trudell
Keep in mind, the news media are not independent; they are a sort of bulletin board and public relations firm for the ruling class-the people… — George Carlin
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying… — Tana French
But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention… — Karl Marx
In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and sovereign… — David Brin
...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts… — Karl Marx
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,… — Albert Camus
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory… — Cyril Connolly
In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class. — Raul Castro
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. — Walter Cronkite
Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in… — Emma Goldman
All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital ,… — Karl Marx
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. — Imran Khan
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. — Rush Limbaugh

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