Ruling Quotes

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

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

I hope that even if I go to jail, it will motivate more and more Hongkongers to commit to determine our future, instead of fully relying on those ruling class who have dominated our future.

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

The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.

When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people."

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.

Dreams cannot be tamed. Dreamers cannot be ruled.

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

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.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

Nominees [to Supreme Court] shouldn't be expected to pre-commit to ruling on certain issues in a certain way. Nor should senators ask nominees to pledge to rule on issues in a particular way.

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.

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

The problem with ruling by fear is that eventually, when the fear fades, fury replaces it.

Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings.

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

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

When a rules man gives you a ruling, that’s it. Amen.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.