Quotes with ruling

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  • Ernest Renan 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.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Blaise Pascal By knowing each man's ruling passion, we are sure of pleasing him; and yet each has his fancies, opposed to his true good, in the very idea which he has of the good.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Al Capone Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
    Al Capone
    American gangster and businessman (1899 - 1947)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lillian Hellman Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • John Donne Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Karl Marx Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Lord George Byron My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bell Hooks 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.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Plato Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bela Lugosi The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Gore Vidal 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
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Karl Marx 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
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • John Ruskin The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • V. S. Pritchett The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Auberon Herbert The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Alexander Pope The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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