Ruling Quotes - page 2

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. (Richard Whately)
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. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
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. View quote
Tommy Douglas
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos. View quote
Carl Jung
Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
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. View quote
Wangari Maathai
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on. View quote
Peter Weiss
A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class. View quote
Damon Knight
The ruling British elite are like animals--not only in their morality, but in their outlook on knowledge. They are clever animals, who are masters of the wicked nature of their own species, and recognize ferally the distinctions of the hated human species. Nonetheless, obsessively dedicated to being such animals, they can not [sic] assimilate those qualities unique to true human beings. (Lyndon LaRouche)
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people." View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
[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. View quote
Tim Buck
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me. View quote
Max Stirner
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. View quote
Karl Marx
Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. View quote
Charles Hodge
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. View quote
Tana French
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. View quote
Bela Lugosi
Education is a monstrosity when it is unequal, when it is the exclusive patrimony of one class of the society; because education then becomes the controlling hand of this class, a mass of mechanisms, a provision of weapons of all kinds, by which the ruling class combats the other class, which is disarmed. View quote
Francois-Noel Babeuf
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. View quote
Jean Ziegler
I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world. (Evel Knievel)
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other. View quote
Imran Khan
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. View quote
Peter O'Toole
I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups. View quote
Charles R. Drew
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. View quote
Frank Chodorov