Ruling Class Quotes
60 quotes by 49 authors
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
— Karl Marx
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is…
— Karl Marx
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I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
— Peter O'Toole
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In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of…
— Steven Pinker
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In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda…
— Paul Robeson
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When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else.…
— Anne Roiphe
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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
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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
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Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
— Chuck Klosterman
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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
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What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
— Christopher Hitchens
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is…
— Karl Marx
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Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government…
— Mark Levin
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American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.
— Noam Chomsky
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I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the…
— Dave Brat
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are…
— Jack Schwartz
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But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There…
— John Marshall Harlan
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I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class…
— David Clennon
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The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they…
— Al Lewis
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Democracy or military rule, Right from the repressive policies of the ruling class, then grabbing power from the device remains in
— Mak_786
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