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The Ruling Class Quotes

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
- Al Capone

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.
- David Clennon

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Frank Herbert

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).
- Vladimir Lenin

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
- Karl Marx

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
- Karl Marx

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

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
- Jeanfrancois Lyotard

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.
- Esai Morales

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

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

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

Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.
- Mark Steyn

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.
- Charles Trevelyan

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