#ruling

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy. ↗

— Douglas Feith

#anything #conducting #diplomacy #i #out

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling. ↗

— Nicholas II

#business #i #i am #know #nothing

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. ↗

— George Orwell

#political #ruling-class #sociological #sociology

FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#coalition #created #fdr #finish #gain

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

#along #class #drudge #ever #genius

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disdain #few #generous #having #pleasures

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#conviction #hatreds #inevitable #national #nourish

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. ↗

— Richard Whately

#castles #examine #know #passion #ruling

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

#changed #decision #dispute #entire #forced