#ruling

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

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Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind. ↗

— James Martineau

#divine #god #holding #mankind #mind

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. ↗

— Peter O'Toole

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

— Pierre Corneille

#disdain #few #generous #having #pleasures

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

— Richard Whately

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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

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. ↗

— Karl Marx

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As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#because #class #danger #deep #deep desire

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

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