Top 125 Ruling Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ruling Quotes from famous people such as Plato, Johnny Vegas, Charles Trevelyan, Alan K. Simpson, Thomas Clarkson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.

Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men.
Plato
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
Johnny Vegas
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.
Charles Trevelyan
If the need for comprehensive campaign finance reform was not already clear, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United permitting unlimited corporate and union spending in campaigns certainly made it so in 2010.
Alan K. Simpson
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Thomas Clarkson
I think the ‘counterculture’ believes that there are ways to manage being the world’s most powerful country that involve creation of consensus – ruling by virtuous example rather than by force of arms.
John Perry Barlow
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
The 1930s birthed two great agrarian novels: ‘Gone with the Wind’ from the viewpoint of the ruling class, ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ for the underclass. And both were turned into movies that dared to be true to the books’ controversial themes.
Richard Corliss
I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.
E. P. Thompson
But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money.
Michael Polanyi
As a general rule, I do not think judges should consider current societal preferences when ruling on constitutional challenges.
Paul Watford
Telangana has been neglected and subjected to untold injustice for the last 50 years by successive ruling parties. But the maximum injustice was done to this region during the nine-year rule of Telugu Desam Party under N Chandrababu Naidu.
Vijayashanti
The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope
When I grew up, you needed to have straight hair. It’s symbolic of needing to be like everyone else, needing to look like everyone else. And what that meant was looking like the dominant ruling class in America.
Anne Roiphe
Trump has more understanding and insight than his opponents realize. For a man such as Trump to risk acquiring so many powerful enemies and to risk his wealth and reputation, he had to have known that the people’s dissatisfaction with the ruling establishment meant he could be elected president.
Paul Craig Roberts
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will – We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
Jonathan Mayhew
State television, from which a significant number of Poles get their news, consistently smears, in aggressive and defamatory language, the political opposition and anyone who thinks differently from the ruling party.
Olga Tokarczuk
Think about it: Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, the former Soviet Union – they all start with the intention of leveling the playing field – or making things better for the little guy – and instead, they created misery, poverty, destruction and a permanent ruling class of bureaucrats.
Trish Regan
I don’t think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
John Bolton
The ruling idea of the politician – stated rather bluntly – is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.
Auberon Herbert
Some members of the ruling class are making a concerted effort to expand the wealth gap.
Tom Steyer
Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America’s elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.
Steve Hilton
The Obama administration’s EPA ruling to cut carbon emissions at power plants is a direct affront to workers in states like Alabama, which not only rely upon coal-fired plants to generate most of their electricity but are also home to thousands of coal industry jobs.
Luther Strange
It feels that while the young people are trying to fight for a world where there’s equality, everyone’s the same, everyone’s helping each other, we want to take care of the planet… it seems like the people that are ruling and are being presidents right now want to do it the other way round.
Hector Bellerin
If you don’t look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.
Esai Morales
The Citizens United ruling opened the door for tax-exempt social welfare organizations to spend substantial portions of their funds on campaign activities, without having to disclose where that money came from.
Michelle Lujan Grisham
Former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and the radical Islamist mullahs ruling Iran share many similarities, but honesty and negotiating in good faith are not among them.
Pete Hoekstra
Monotheism makes me grouchy. I don’t trust any religion that makes God look like one of the ruling class. I guess I’m a pagan or an animist.
Gloria Steinem
I am running to fix the economy, restore the constitutional system of checks and balances and to end this game of crony capitalism by the ruling class in Washington.
Dave Brat
The Occupy Wall Street movement, in general, by putting this idea out there that the one percent is leeching off the 99 percent, is making a new discussion, making people figure out how to withhold their labor and come and put their issues on the table with the ruling class all over the country and all over the world.
Boots Riley
The political outcome that is desired is one which makes any government sensitive to the pulse of the people and their welfare, allowing any ruling party to govern without gridlock while promoting the political openness that so many of us yearn for in Singapore.
Pritam Singh
I cannot separate my achievements from what can be cons

I cannot separate my achievements from what can be considered as the achievements of the ruling party.
Meles Zenawi
We are supposed to all be equal before the law, but we have a separate and distinct ruling class, and that is wrong.
Ron DeSantis
I’m not ruling out the possibilities of being an ‘Ultimate Fighter’ coach.
Diego Sanchez
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.’
Nina Easton
We must continue to educate the masses and encourage savings in Bitcoin to truly drain the kleptocratic swamp ruling our financial system.
Max Keiser
The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and low-income Americans to unfair, punitive barriers preventing them from exercising their most basic right as American citizens.
Marc Veasey
I’m not ruling out music forever. I’d love to do that, but if I ever did, I don’t think it would be with a record label or anything like that. It might even look like me finding a band and kind of playing in bars.
Maia Mitchell
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
Pierre Corneille
Unlike tennis matches, Supreme Court decisions are tiebreaker-free, meaning the lower-court ruling stands without any high-court guidance.
Don Willett
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful – the ‘ruling class’ – make up the rules as they go along.
Marilyn Ferguson
It’s hard, because when you talk about process or your characters ruling your narrative, it sounds like you have no control, but obviously you’re ultimately the author, so you do have control.
Alice Sebold
I’d dress like RuPaul if I was prime minister. I’d have a lace front, waist cincher. I’d have padding on my hips. I’d be ruling the country in style.
Jade Thirlwall
After 1984, no ruling party in the State has won to form the government the second time.
J. Jayalalithaa
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx
I didn’t write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
N. T. Wright
Will there be a political backlash against British Prime Minister Theresa May, whose ruling Conservative Party is traditionally seen as ‘stronger’ on terrorism than its main rival, the Labour Party?
Peter Bergen
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.
Ernest Renan
Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
Hjalmar Schacht
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.
Peter Singer
A Supreme Court ruling is supposed to provide clarity to contentious legal issues, but in the case of reproductive rights, it was just the beginning of a long, heated, and grueling debate.
Mike Quigley
We are asking Nigerians for their cooperation. They shouldn’t expect miracles to happen a couple of months after we’ve taken over because the destruction took so many years – 16 years of the ruling party’s rule of this country.
Muhammadu Buhari