What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.
For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Women have always run the world; maybe it's time to give them a chance at ruling it.
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class.
Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses.
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
Generally, the real question in a midterm year is whether the damage for the ruling party will be severe or mild.
In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.
The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression and corruption.
Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.
The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.
The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.
I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.
Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.
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.
Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.
Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.
A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.
After 1984, no ruling party in the State has won to form the government the second time.
I expect the ruling and opposition parties to work together for the future of Taiwan.
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.
Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.
The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
We all want what every girl wants: to look fabulous while we're out there ruling the world.
People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.
The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.
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.
Some members of the ruling class are making a concerted effort to expand the wealth gap.
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.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
I feel, as a game maker, we are responsible to make content that stretch the ruling structure and emotions so that everyone can enjoy.
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.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.
We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.
Delhi is truly the fashion address of the country, and some of the best designers from there are ruling Mumbai.
Relationships based on deals between leaders or ruling elites tend to collapse amid popular anger.
The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.
As a general rule, I do not think judges should consider current societal preferences when ruling on constitutional challenges.
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system.
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.
The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising.
Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.
I didn't quite agree with the Supreme Court ruling that forced civic clubs to take women.
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.
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