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“The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.”

People Able Political Class Democracy Rich Ruling Manipulate

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.”

War Sports Class Burden Pursuit Resistance Gentleman Enterprise Heroic Passive Ruling Nonconformity Passive Resistance

Author:Kenneth Kaunda

“Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people themselves take power in their hands the ruling classes resort to unheard-of crimes and shootings if it is a matter of protecting their money-bags.”

People Ifs Doe Matter Whole Shows Hands Class Rich Crime Strive Socialism Shooting Revolutionary Bags Ruling Resorts Unheard

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.”

“All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it.”

Want Character Interest Class Increase Miserable Ruling Appropriation Labourers

Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

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

Party Class Republican Officials Republican Party Ruling

Author:Angelo Codevilla

“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

Wells Pain Pleasure Moral Class Principles Seeing Members Tables Coffee Abstract Sheer Constructs Torment Ruling Theoretical Moral Principles

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“Libertarians have always battled the age-old scourge of war. They understood that war brought death and destruction on a grand scale, disrupted family and economic life, and put more power in the hands of the ruling class - which might explain why the rulers did not always share the popular sentiment for peace. Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.”

Source: The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

“We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.”

Country Interest Liberty Class Democracy Modern Speech Presses Discussion Permit Association Regimes Principal Ruling

Author:Gaetano Mosca

“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.”

War Enemy Class Hatred Safety Occasions Ruling Sociological Valve

Author:Ernest Becker

“These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.”

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. 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. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.”

“David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just another day's work... In the world of David Rockefeller it's hard to tell where business ends and politics begins”

“The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.”

States Class Executives Committees Ruling

Book:The annotated communist manifesto

Source: The annotated communist manifesto

“The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.”

Wells Fun Enjoy Class Healthy Importance Feds Ruling Dissatisfied Cannibal Fun Loving

Author:Marge Piercy

“[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad. Their enemies are anybody who wants more social justice, anybody who wants to use the surplus value of society for social needs rather than for individual class greed, that's their enemy.”

People Knows Want Needs Use Home Values Individual Social Justice Enemy Class Social Justice Greed Elites Ruling Surplus

Author:Michael Parenti

“But the more these conscious illusions of the ruling class are shown to be false and the less they satisfy common sense, the more dogmatically they are asserted and the more deceitful, moralizing and spiritual becomes the language of established society.”

Spiritual Language Common Class Illusion Conscious Common Sense Ruling Deceitful Moralizing

Author:Karl Marx

“It is only through an abandonment of the idea that those entrusted with power have an exclusive right to decide upon war, and the substitution of a public opinion equipped with all the facts and taken into the confidence of the ruling classes, that peace can be assured to the world.”

World Ideas War Facts Opinion Class Taken War Of The Worlds Ruling Assured Public Opinion Exclusive Abandonment Substitution Decide Upon

Author:Frederic C. Howe

“Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.”

Stills Humor Today Funny Used Class Doors Special Handle Used To Be Occasions Working Class Ruling Reserved Special Occasion Limousines

Author:Erma Bombeck

“It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.”

People Thinking Way Years Has Beens Country Running Able President Differences Class Policy Genius Republican Democrat Candidates Ruling Absolutely Nothing

Author:Gore Vidal

“The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the world on democracy. It's an unbelievable show of self-satisfaction and arrogance.”

World Self Hard Shows Class Democracy Rocks Mountain Structure Satisfaction Arrogance Unbelievable Ruling Lectures Swiss Self-satisfaction

Author:Jean Ziegler

“The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.”

“The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.”

Today Class Hatred Conviction Inevitable Ruling Rivalry

Author:Charles Trevelyan

“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.”

Ifs Long Has Beens Strong Forget Class Creative Lessons Smarter Ruling Drains

Author:Al Lewis

“I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe.”

Thinking Want Believe Reality Class Ruling Want U

Author:John Trudell

“The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people the correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class.”

People Way Giving Has Beens Country Political Order Force Social Class Subjects Information Protect Mass Vote Presses Best Way Wealthy Brutal Ruling Employing Chicanery

Author:E. W. Scripps

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.”

Real Vision Class Amount Perception Disaster Familiar Decline Ruling Apocalyptic

Author:Noam Chomsky

“How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been two hundred years at it. It's superb.”

People Thinking Years Two Interest Class Hundred Vote Clever Ruling Superb Very Clever

Author:Gore Vidal

“As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.”

Problem Class Majority Sole Powerless Ruling Brooks Bribe Coerce

Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia

“The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.”

Men Able Class Dangerous Ruling Prominent

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume III: The Economist

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume III: The Economist

“When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.”

People Wells Country School Reading President Wealth Class High School Caught Ruling Textbooks History Textbooks

Author:Utah Phillips

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