Quotes about Ruling

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. Votes: 4

One hardly saves a world without ruling it. Votes: 3

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. Votes: 3

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. Votes: 3

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. Votes: 3

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses. Votes: 3

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. Votes: 3

Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I don't want a rainbow... Rainbows have too many colors and none of them receive the appreciation they deserve... I'd prefer a fading red or a striking golden, a shimmery silver or a sober blue... Ruling the sunset sky alone! Votes: 3

[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for instance, that economics should govern all of social life, to such a degree that it becomes increasingly difficult to challenge it. Votes: 3

On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos. Votes: 3

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. Votes: 2

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly. Votes: 2

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. Votes: 2

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. Votes: 2

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip. Votes: 2

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power. Votes: 2

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still. Votes: 2

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. Votes: 2

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. Votes: 2

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party. Votes: 2

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country. Votes: 2

If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite. Votes: 2

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 Votes: 2

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. Votes: 2

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it. Votes: 2

If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me. Votes: 2

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers. Votes: 1

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. Votes: 1

Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today. Votes: 1

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. Votes: 1

I'm a trader. Under the right circumstances, I'd consider a new boat. I'm not ruling it out. Votes: 1

Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don't trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I'm a pagan or an animist. Votes: 1

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 of Hitler's Germany. Votes: 1

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 is no caste here. Votes: 1

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours? Votes: 1

We are asking Nigerians for their cooperation. They shouldn't expect miracles to happen a couple of months after we've taken over because the destruction took so many years - 16 years of the ruling party's rule of this country. Votes: 1

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism. Votes: 1

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks. Votes: 1

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 the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves. Votes: 1

The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror. Votes: 1

Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime. Votes: 1

A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor. Votes: 1

In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history. Votes: 1

Government is a ruling structured thuggery. Votes: 0

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something. Votes: 0

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny. Votes: 0

I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world. Votes: 0

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. Votes: 0

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class. Votes: 0

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class. Votes: 0

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler. Votes: 0

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that's it. Amen. Votes: 0

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea. Votes: 0

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control. Votes: 0

Honesty, like any inclination, can become a ruling passion, a monomania almost. Votes: 0

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. Votes: 0

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest. Votes: 0

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics. Votes: 0

The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising. Votes: 0

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. Votes: 0

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers Votes: 0

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled. Votes: 0

For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group. Votes: 0

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system. Votes: 0

Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. Votes: 0

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle. Votes: 0

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it. Votes: 0

Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger. Votes: 0

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. Votes: 0

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people . Votes: 0

It is always better to look at a matter positively before ruling negatively on it. Votes: 0

I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan. Votes: 0

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to Votes: 0

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves. Votes: 0

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on. Votes: 0

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. Votes: 0

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. Votes: 0

Life as a defeated warrior with dignity is lot better than the king ruling without it. Votes: 0

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert. Votes: 0

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel. Votes: 0

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. Votes: 0

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it. Votes: 0

Science is much better at finding things that exist than at ruling out things that don't. Votes: 0

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. Votes: 0

I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling. Votes: 0

A ruling government can't afford to publish history in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection. Votes: 0

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place. Votes: 0

We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here. Votes: 0

The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals. Votes: 0

You must bow on your knees at all times before the ruling-class norms to show you are submissive. Votes: 0

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat. Votes: 0

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good. Votes: 0

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. Votes: 0

Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. Votes: 0

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear. Votes: 0

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools. Votes: 0

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Votes: 0

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Votes: 0

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population. Votes: 0

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit. Votes: 0

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love. Votes: 0

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn. Votes: 0

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. Votes: 0

The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically. Votes: 0

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame. Votes: 0

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. Votes: 0

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business. Votes: 0

In the partnership between ourselves and the horse there must be one ruling spirit, and that one must be the rider. Votes: 0

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class. Votes: 0

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. Votes: 0

There is a supreme power and ruling force which pervades and rules the boundless universe. You are a part of this power Votes: 0

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country? Votes: 0

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. Votes: 0

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. Votes: 0

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money. Votes: 0

Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing? Votes: 0

You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!What has your politics fed onsince you've been ruling the world?On butchery and murder! Votes: 0

I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again. Votes: 0

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions. Votes: 0

The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it. Votes: 0

Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke. Votes: 0

I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this. Votes: 0

Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class. Votes: 0

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations. Votes: 0

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS. Votes: 0

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence. Votes: 0

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. Votes: 0

[Canada's ruling circles seek] to ally themselves more closely with American imperialism without giving up the economic advantages of membership in the British Empire. Votes: 0

I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia. Votes: 0

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster. Votes: 0

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule. Votes: 0

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them. Votes: 0

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern. Votes: 0

I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about. Votes: 0

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good. Votes: 0

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies. Votes: 0

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party. Votes: 0

Once humanity discovers what's behind the mirror of all the ruling class of governments and religions there will be a new beginning of justice called Enlightenment. Votes: 0

There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world for decades and centuries. Votes: 0

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they say? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. Votes: 0

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky. Votes: 0

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they control enormously, enormously, in an enormously important way. Votes: 0

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership Votes: 0

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 ruling class in Washington. Votes: 0

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest. Votes: 0

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station. Votes: 0

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 power by force or fraud. Votes: 0

I think that Mama June has the greatest self-esteem on the planet. I always say to people, 'If I had her self-worth, I would probably be ruling the world.' Votes: 0

Resurrecting American democracy is vital to averting climate catastrophe. We must first repeal the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which has flooded elections with billions of oily petrodollars from carbon tycoons. Votes: 0

I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category. Votes: 0

I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no contestant can have the whole pie. Votes: 0

A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies. Votes: 0

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

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 struggling for the same piece of land. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The ruling power is always faced with the question, "˜In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe. Votes: 0

The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist, was the obvious answer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value, but psychologists say it is a fantasy based on ruling-class ego and guilt. Votes: 0

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 to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since. Votes: 0

But we must not forget the effort undertaken by the ruling elite in Russia to manipulate Western politicians, businessmen as well as journalists. That's why [Vladimir] Putin's "fifth column" is that powerful in the West. Votes: 0

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance. Votes: 0

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies. Votes: 0

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 order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege. Votes: 0