Ruling Quotes

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of the world and doing an incredible job.

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

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

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

I think Trump's affinity for Netanyahu is part of the fact that he is most comfortable with fellow bullies. He is setting up a worldwide club of ruling bullies.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional rights. This judge's ruling is wonderful.

Sweden formally writing back to the United Nations to say, 'No, we're not going to [recognise the UN ruling], so leaving open their ability to extradite.

Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

[Bob Ferguson] won that huge ruling against the first version of the Muslim ban that resulted in it being stopped dead in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.