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• Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Country, Money, Women

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• The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.

  Clarence Thomas

  Government, Humanity, Gay Marriage

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• In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

  Clarence Thomas

  Change, Religious, Decision

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

  Alexander Pope

  Passion, Literature, Conquer

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Bathurst" l. 155 (1733)

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• Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

  Plato

  Art, Plato, Philosophical

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• If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.207, Discovery House

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

  Louisa May Alcott

  Queens, Women, Long

  "An Old-Fashioned Girl". Book by Louisa May Alcott, 1869.

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• 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.

  Samuel Alito

  Home, School, Government

  "Faith, Family, and Religious Freedom: A Conversation with Justice Samuel Alito". Interview with Eric Banecker, www.semcasual.org. May 17, 2017.

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• 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.

  Antonin Scalia

  Hippie, Mean, Thinking

  Antonin Scalia (2016). “Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents”, p.187, Regnery Publishing

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• If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Years, Europe, Islam

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• The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.

  Ed Crane

  Religious, Class, People

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• Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth.

  George Crabbe

  Party, Men, Talking

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• 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.

  Kay Arthur

  Thank You, Bible, God

  Kay Arthur (2009). “As Silver Refined: Learning to Embrace Life's Disappointments”, p.117, WaterBrook

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• Govern wisely, and as little as possible

  Sam Houston

  Wise, Power, Political

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• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  Confucius

  Country, Countries Of The World, Government

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• I always say you could publish rules in a newspaper and no one would follow them. The key is consistency and discipline.

  Richard Dennis

  Keys, Discipline, Consistency

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• The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Running, Stupid, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.309, Macmillan

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• 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. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Expression, Class

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.16, Haymarket Books

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• Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

  Karl Marx

  Country, Communication, Winning

  Karl Marx (2013). “The Communist Manifesto”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 Byron

  Power, Comfort, Teeth

  Letter to Thomas Moore, April 9, 1814.

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• 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

  Men, Law, Society

  "The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues". Book by Chaz Bufe, p. 26, 1992.

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• I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Kids, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• In the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore got more votes than George W. Bush, but still lost the election. The Supreme Court's ruling in Florida gave Bush that pivotal state, and doomed Gore to lose the Electoral College. That odd scenario - where the candidate with the most votes loses - has happened three times in U.S. history.

  Juan Williams

  College, Florida, Worst Case Scenario

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• His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

  Jane Austen

  Principles, Ease, Enjoyment

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.213, Wordsworth Editions

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• A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Loss, Intellectual, World

  A World Split Apart — Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, www.orthodoxytoday.org. June 8, 1978.

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