Ruling Quotes

If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

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.

In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.

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 foundation of the State which was primordial in their eyes.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.

The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

I love fashion and beauty and all those things, I still do but I think that it has changed the shift, that the greed is ruling the planet right now.

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.

If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

Some rule out of a lust for ruling; others, so as not to be ruled:Mto these it is merely the lesser of two evils.

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.

I don’t discount a magical hand of fate. I am an actor, after all, and a Shakespearian, no less. But it can’t be the ruling force of your life. You have to be the driver.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

And I hope that we can learn the lessons of the past in looking at the current challenge that China poses to a ruling America.

I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.

I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.