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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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• Jessica Pearson isn't a unicorn. She's not a mythological creature. She's an example of so many women out there that are ruling their part of the world and doing an incredible job.

  Gina Torres

  Jobs, Example, World

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• Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Inspirational, Pleasing Others, Advantage

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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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• I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

  Evel Knievel

  Chinese, President, United States

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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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• I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

  John Diefenbaker

  Ruling The World, Canada, Excited

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• Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

  Saint Augustine

  Wise, Love Is, Justice

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• Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.

  Walker Percy

  Son, Men, Desire

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• The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet the short flat terms used over and over, both in dialogue and narrative, add neither vigor nor clarity; the effect is not of shock but of something far more dangerous — tedium.

  Dorothy Parker

  Beautiful, Thinking, Boys

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• The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

  Peter Singer

  Government, Korea, Internet Access

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fighting, Men, Class

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• I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.

  Johnny Vegas

  Believe, Class, Ideas

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• The SuperPACs and the Citizens United ruling that gives corporations a voice in the political process are all bad news. They made it so you can now lie, and the politician being promoted on that lie will not be held responsible for it.

  Jesse Ventura

  Lying, Voice, Giving

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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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• When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It's symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.

  Anne Roiphe

  Hair, Class, America

  "Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory". Anne Roiphe's Lust, Passion, and Very Good Memory, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

  Charles Willeford

  Stupid, Wings, Long

  Charles Willeford (2013). “The Woman Chaser”, p.129, The Overlook Press

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• The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Class, Political, Economic

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• But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.

  Claudia Gray

  Olympus, Universe

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• Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance; otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.

  Gail Carriger

  Balance, Elements, Want

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• We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.

  Tony Judt

  Political, Answers, World

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.11, Penguin

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• Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

  Vladimir Lenin

  Independent, Curves, Class

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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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• The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

  David Clennon

  Country, Class, Climate

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• We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling ideology, paralysed, is incapable of spotting him. It stammers, overcome by its own moral disarmament, and is giving up: this is the time to seize the reins. Present society is an accomplice to the evil that is devouring it.

  Guillaume Faye

  Giving Up, Cities, Evil

  Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

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