#ruling

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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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#communication #define #elite #formula #may

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations. ↗

— David Cone

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The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#continue #decision #makers #ruling #ruling class

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

— Plato

#men #minds #rhetoric #ruling

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#adjust #agents #also #economic #economy

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

— Alexander Pope

#passion #reason #ruling #still #will

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

#battles #been #black #champions #class

One hardly saves a world without ruling it. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ruling #saves #without #world

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

— Gerald Priestland

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