Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.
Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness that's in high places. " It's in "high places" that the plot against Black and Brown, and poor White is going on; it's spiritual wickedness that's way up in the ruling classes of religious people who don't want to see the little man rise. It's the principalities and the powers.
The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
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.
Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a week ago had turned out to be a real revolution and the shadow of death actually threatened all of us who were of the ruling cast.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.
The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional rights. This judge's ruling is wonderful.
Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.
If the Africans and Arabs were ruling Spain from 711 to 1492, had they destroyed the Catholic church, they still would be ruling Spain to this day because that's the institution that held them together. The institute that gave them the only hope was their church. This is why we are so depressed because the institutions of hope that would cause fulfillment amongst us has either been destroyed or laughed at.
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.