The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
Auberon Herbert

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

The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.
Vincent Bugliosi

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

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.
Walid Jumblatt

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.
Brian Ferneyhough

There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
Iris Chang

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

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

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess.
Ryan Stiles

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Thomas Clarkson

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott