Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
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.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
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.
Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.
Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It's called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they're not a threat, you can control them.
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
God is in control, and therefore in EVERYTHING I can give thanks - not because of the situation but because of the One who directs and rules over it.
I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
Govern wisely, and as little as possible
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.
Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.
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