Ruling Quotes

• The ruling in the Paula Jones case is so silly.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Silly
  • Ruling
  • Paula

• We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

  

  Aristotle
  • Earth
  • Sea
  • Noble acts

• I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

  

  Evel Knievel
  • President
  • Chinese
  • United States

• If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Religion
  • Chance
  • England

• This ruling goes against all law ... It is scandalous.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Law
  • Against
  • Ruling

• A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

  

  George Orwell
  • Society
  • Structure
  • Fraud

• Do you call yourself Free? It is your ruling thought that I would hear, and not that you have escaped from a yoke.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Free
  • Escaped
  • Ruling

• Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

  

  Aristotle
  • Justice
  • Turn
  • Demands

• The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.

  

  Angelo Codevilla
  • Class
  • Republican Party
  • Officials

• When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Win
  • Congress
  • Report

• I am so excited about Canadians ruling the world.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • World
  • Excited
  • Ruling

• The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Power
  • Self-Control
  • Ruling

• The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action. They have no authority. A life lived in God is not lived on the plane of the feelings, but of the will. In Scripture the heart is the will - the man himself, the spring of all action, the ruling power bestowed on him by his Creator, capable of choosing and acting.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Action
  • Emotions
  • Authority

• America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • America
  • Society
  • Ignorant

• The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

  

  Karl Kautsky
  • Government
  • Capitalist
  • Ruling

• I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Different
  • Wish
  • Stills

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

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Years
  • Made
  • Class

• His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Principle
  • Enjoyment
  • Ruling

• The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Imagination
  • Governed
  • Ruling

• I'm not going to ruin my movie because of some stupid ruling that it has to be ninety minutes long. That's just like adding three more plates to the last supper, or an extra wing to the Pentagon.

  

  Charles Willeford
  • Movie
  • Stupid
  • Ruin

• Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

  

  Washington Gladden
  • Purpose
  • Christian
  • Ruling

• War is a sociological safety valve that cleverly diverts popular hatred for the ruling classes into a happy occasion to mutilate or kill foreign enemies.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Hatred
  • Occasions
  • Sociological

• Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

  

  Bernard Crick
  • Violence
  • Politics
  • Ruling

• If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

  

  Ivo Andric
  • People
  • Ruling
  • Die Of Fear

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