Quotes About Ruling

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

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.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

You probably learned in your high school civics course, as I did in mine, that the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land. Well, I'm here to tell you this morning that this is not strictly true. The Court of Public Opinion is actually the highest court in the land.

Along with clarification of issues surrounding seizures, the court's ruling stated that, "[t]he 'reasonableness' of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight." What this established was that the crucial element was how the officer measured the situation and its elements at the time, regardless of what may have been discovered later.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

Taishakuten ruled Tenkai by fear to prevent the six stars from gathering but…that only encouraged their concentration—as was meant to happen.

una buena parte de ese espíritu de servicio público, de imperio británico, de reforma tributaria, de espíritu de la clase gobernante

If I ruled supreme, there would be big problems.

The Archons are the servants of the Demiurge. The Archons are ruling spirits, but they are false rulers.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

I... was seized very early with a passion for literature, which has been the ruling passion of my life, and the great source of my enjoyments.

Historically, the common form of revolution has been a not-too-efficient despotism which is overthrown by another non-too-efficient despotism with little or no effect on the public good. Indeed, except for the change in the names of the ruling circles, it would be hard to distinguish one from the other.

The Citizens United ruling did not invent special-interest spending; it enables corporations and unions to advocate directly on behalf of a candidate rather than running more subtle 'issue ads.'

You may take this as a general and central principle in criticism: that all science, literature or song, which recognizes conscious life as the ruling principle of the universe, is Christian.

Orwell once commented that "whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time, and at certain moments a very important question.

A humble mid-American yeomanry, pure of heart and free of class resentment, giving the existing social order their plebeian imprimatur; it is an endlessly recurring dream of the ruling class.

Everything is politics.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

I have, on several occasions, disagreed with decisions of Justice Souter.

So long as you keep on pretending that money is anything but a consensus hallucination induced by the ruling elite to convince you to let them hoard the best stuff, you're never going to make a difference.

y entró en esa buena sociedad de gente del gobierno que no está a la cabeza, pero que son, o pudieran ser, el verdadero poder oculto de la nación: gente que sabe de qué habla, o habla como si lo supiera.

She felt almost upper class; and at the same time a resentment against the ruling class smouldered in her. The masters!

Who are the aristocrats now — who are chosen as the best to rule? Those who have money and the brains for money. It doesn't matter what else they have: but they must have money-brains — because they are ruling in the name of money." "The people elect the government," he said. "I know they do. But what are the people? Each one of them is a money-interest.