Ruling Quotes

• Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

  Al Capone

  Class, Mafia, Bootlegging

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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 most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Class, People

  "Matters of Fact and Fiction: Essays 1973 - 1976". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 280), 1978.

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• To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

  Richard Whately

  Passion, Air, Words Of Wisdom

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• Jesus Christ has now done all He can do, and He waits at the right hand of the His Father, until you and I as sons of God become manifest and make this world His footstool. He is waiting for us to say, "Jesus, we have made the kingdoms of this world the Kingdom of our God, and are ruling and reigning in your world."

  Earl Paulk

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, Mean, Allies

  Bertolt Brecht, John Willett (1964). “Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic”

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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 at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Ideas, Intellectual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.64, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Novelists, Tamed

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jan 30, 2012

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• If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!

  Rand Paul

  Home, Government, Term Limits

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Feb 13, 2013

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• The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Issues

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• Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Should Have, United States

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage

  "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

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• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

  Plato

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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

  Michael Pare

  Guiding Principles, Political, Changed

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• If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.

  Jacque Fresco

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  World

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Power, Imagination

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

  Nicholas II of Russia

  Ready, Knows

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• A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Communication, Mean, Power

  "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, (p. 595), 2012.

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

  Thomas Clarkson

  Government, Desire, Saws

  Thomas Clarkson (1787). “An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species: Particularly the African, Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was Honoured with the First Prize, in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions. [One Line from Livy]”, p.52

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• The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Stupid, Silly, Cases

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• 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.

  Hjalmar Schacht

  Taught, Economic, Economy

  "Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression" by the United States Department of State, Vol. 2, (p. 746), 1946.

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

  Charles Hodge

  People, Representatives, Elders

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.16

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• I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, Gaza Strip, Satisfied

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• If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

  Ivo Andric

  Fear, People, Brain

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