#ruling

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

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

— Karl Marx

#been #class #each #ever #ideas

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler. ↗

— Esai Morales

#class #like #look #ruling #ruling class

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

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

— Nicholas II

#business #i #i am #know #nothing

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

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been. ↗

— Al Lewis

#because #been #class #creative #down

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

— Plato

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