Quotes of Ruling - somelinesforyou

“ The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole. ”

- Edgar A. Shoaff

“ 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

“ Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. ”

- Clement R. Attlee

“ John Travolta said he sometimes lets his friends take control of his airplane even though they don't know what they're doing. Then Travolta said he often does the same thing with his career. ”

- Conan O’Brien

“ The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. ”

- Alexander Pope

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

- Louisa May Alcott

“ The principal purpose of politics is the evolution and maintenance of a securely established ruling class with a justified sense of its own honourable superiority. ”

- Peregrine Worsthorne

“ You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ”

- James Allen

“ We've got four seniors this year who are giving us some good leadership. We lost three, but we gained four. And we've got some younger players who are hitting the ball just as well as anybody. ”

- Elizabeth Blackwell

“ An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing? ”

- Peter Brook

“ Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ We are exactly where we have chosen to be. ”

- Vernon Howard

“ Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. ”

- Bible

“ Many are called but few are chosen. There are sayings of Christ which suggest that the Church he came to establish will always be a minority affair. ”

- Edward Norman

“ I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job. ”

- Julie Walters

“ More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. ”

- Jack Schwartz

“ I just want to get a Ph.D. in love. ”

- Barbara De Angelis

“ Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ 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

“ Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets. ”

- Gerald Priestland

“ 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

“ One hardly saves a world without ruling it. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men. ”

- Plato

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

- John Ruskin

“ The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers. ”

- V. S. Pritchett

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

- Richard Whately

“ We can do noble acts without ruling earth and sea. ”

- Aristotle

“ God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. ”

- Ed McMahon

“ 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. ”

- peter kropotkin

“ 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
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