Ruling Quotes - Page 16

• I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.

  Ron Barrier

  Religious, Differences, Irs

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• Muhammad divided the world in two sectors. One he called Dar us Salam (House of Peace) and the other, Dar al Harb (House of War). All countries, where Islam is not the ruling authority, are Dar al Harb. It is the duty of the Muslims to wage Jihad in Dar al Harb, overthrow the governments and force people into submission. This is the only kind of peace that Islam recognizes.

  Ali Sina

  Country, War, Government

  Source: myislam.dk

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• It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Running, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Jean Ziegler

  Rocks, Self, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Giving, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (194?). “Gandhi's Beads of Wisdow: A Synopsis of Gandhiji's Utterances on Truth and Non-violence”

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• When a rapidly rising power rivals an established ruling power, trouble ensues. In 11 of 15 cases in which this has occurred in the past 500 years, the result was war. The great Greek historian Thucydides identified these structural stresses as the primary cause of the war between Athens and Sparta in ancient Greece. In his oft-quoted insight, "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this inspired in Sparta that made war inevitable."

  Graham T. Allison

  War, Stress, Past

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• But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Fall, Self Confidence

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1306, Penguin UK

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• In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.

  Michael Moore

  Real, War, Ignorance

  "Fictional character: Winston Smith". "1984", 1984.

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• The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

  Al Lewis

  Strong, Class, Long

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• I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

  Andrew Thomas

  Law, Effort, Boards

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• A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.

  Graham Greene

  Passion, Giving, Unity

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• I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe.

  John Trudell

  Believe, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people the correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class.

  E. W. Scripps

  Country, Order, Class

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• The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.

  William S. Burroughs

  Optimistic, Feet, Long

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.479, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Winning, Men

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.130, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I proceeded in my national mission, seeking to pave the way for an understanding between His Majesty and the other ruling princes of Arabia.

  Ameen Rihani

  Understanding, Arabia, Majesty

  Ameen Fares Rihani (1930). “Around the Coasts of Arabia”

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• It's hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you're ultimately the author, so you do have control.

  Alice Sebold

  Character, Sound, Narrative

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Class, Perception

  "'Losing' the world: American decline in perspective". www.aljazeera.com. February 15, 2012.

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• How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.

  Gore Vidal

  Clever, Thinking, Years

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• A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Art, Prayer

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Dream, Conjunctions, Tyranny

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• My will shall be done regardless of the flaws in thy life, if ye count upon the power of My righteousness. I do not work only in cases where there are no obstacles; but I glory in over-ruling the prevailing circumstances, and I take pleasure in bringing victories in those places where no victory is anywhere in sight.

  Frances J Roberts

  Sight, Victory, Done

  Frances J. Roberts (1973). “Come Away My Beloved”

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• Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

  Wendell Phillips

  Stars, Children, Giving Up

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• As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

  Gore Vidal

  Class, Majority, Problem

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.45, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• Belief in one god, praying, charity, the five pillars, ethical moral objectives and messages in the Koran, the history of Islam. There are basic tenants in Islam that we universally believe in but I think it's very naive to think that Sharia, that legal rulings are derived in a vacuum, that people do not bring their own histories and politics and social pledges to bear when they interpret the Koran.

  Mark Durie

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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