Ruling Government Quotes

#1. The newspapers could differ sharply on some questions because many were aligned with, or even sponsored financially by, either the ruling government or the opposition party, and tailored their coverage accordingly.

Jane Austen

#2. Oh, please," said Hessler. "It's your standard false duality designed to draw gullible believers into a world of monochromatic enemies and strip away any moral ambiguity - usually utilized by the ruling government to bolster whatever policies it wishes to implement.

Patrick Weekes

#3. Loyalty is an asset, independent and scarce, parceled out among different contestants for power. No ruling government or nonruling group enjoys absolute loyalty - no contestant can have the whole pie.

Yossi Shain

#4. A ruling government can't afford to publish history
in a version which lessens its' chance for reelection.

Toba Beta

#5. Joe Louis was one of my first heroes.

Robert Goulet

#6. [representative government is] deciding once in three or six years which member of the ruling class was to misrepresent the people in Parliament,

Karl Marx

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

Karl Kautsky

#8. Uncertainty is one of government recipes.

Toba Beta

#9. There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. No guile?
Nay, but so strangely
He moves among us. Not this
Man but Barabbas! Release to us
Barabbas!

Adelaide Crapsey

#11. In which, if any, of these constitutions do we find the art of ruling being practiced in the actual government of men? What art is more difficult to learn? But what art is more important to us?

Plato

#12. By its nature, government was either small and personal, something on the level of a town hall meeting, or it was tyranny, with the few ruling the many for their own benefit, no matter how representational that government might be in theory.

William H. Keith Jr.

#13. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.

Peter Moon

#14. If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.

Noel DeJesus

#15. A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician.

Thomas Paine

#16. I want to be in 'The Hobbit.' I love fantasy and mythical adventure films. I believe in fairies and angels. I believe in nature's spirit, that there are other realms, other planets, life forms.

Julia Sawalha

#17. When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

Thomas Clarkson

#18. Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Charles Caleb Colton

#19. Who's Jessie?"
"My Yugo"
"You have a name for your Yugo? Please don't tell me you're one of those guys who also names his dick."
"Unfortunately, I've yet to find the perfect name for mine, so it's in this netherworld of nameless identity right now.

Rachel Cohn

#20. I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

Namie Amuro

#21. Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.

Hjalmar Schacht

#22. The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

Conan O'Brien

#23. We are giving the citizens of Poland a sense that a reasonable and predictable government is ruling here.

Donald Tusk

#24. Boys annoyed her. Girls annoyed her. She should have been a cat.

Katie Neipris

#25. When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,
or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,
farewell cool reason and fair discretion.

Laurence Sterne

#26. Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

Franz Grillparzer

#27. What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

Christopher Hitchens

#28. I'm a heart-on-the-sleeves kind of person.

Dreama Walker

#29. 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

#30. Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

Giuseppe Prezzolini

#31. I am delighted by the support I have received from colleagues. It reflects the optimistic message that I've been putting forward.

Michael Gove

#32. Government is a ruling structured thuggery.

Toba Beta

#33. The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

#34. Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class.

John Trudell

#35. The ruling classes use broken and smashed up childhoods as weaponised instruments of domination around the world. This is why the government has no incentive to end child abuse; because the government needs abuse victims as enforcers.

Stefan Molyneux

#36. The newspapers are the ruling power. Any other government is reduced to a few marines at Fort Independence. If a man neglects to read the Daily Times, government will go down on its knees to him, for this is the only treason these days.

Henry David Thoreau

#37. Books and papers are the basis of good scholarship and sound knowledge," declared Mr Norrell primly. "Magic is to be put on the same footing as the other disciplines.

Susanna Clarke

#38. Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

Jane Austen