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Chuck Schumer is the face of the ruling class.
Wendy Long /
Chuck
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No one but the ruling class wins in a culture war.
Ash Sarkar /
Ruling
Ruling Class
Wins
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Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al Capone / Gangster
Bootlegging
Class
Mafia
Racket
Ruling
Ruling Class
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If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.
Esai Morales / Actor
Class
Looks
Ruling
Ruling Class
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The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
Jean-Francois Lyotard / Philosopher
Class
Decision
Makers
Ruling
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Karl Marx / Philosopher
Birthday
Smile
Age
Class
Ideas
Ruling
Been
Each
Ever
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
Imran Khan / Pakistani Politician
Sports
Class
Law
Ruling
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Some members of the ruling class are making a concerted effort to expand the wealth gap.
Tom Steyer /
Ruling
Concerted Effort
Expand
Gap
Ruling Class
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi / Actor
Former
Ignorance
Lying
Mean
Ruling
Lies
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Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges.
Steve Hilton /
Captured
Class
Democracy
Ruling
Increasingly
Perpetuate
Privileges
Ruling Class
Seeks
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It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
Marilyn Ferguson / Author
Class
Dark
Unspoken
Rules
Make Up
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I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
Peter O'toole / Film Actor
Class
Fun
Ruling
Years
Favorite
Great Fun
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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 /
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Equal
Law
Ruling
Before
Distinct
Wrong
Ruling Class
Separate
Supposed
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Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class.
Charles Murray /
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In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.
Raul Castro / President Of The Council Of State Of Cuba
Class
Cuba
Expression
Party
Ruling
Both Parties
One Party
Parties
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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?
Iris Chang / Historian
Boston
Cities
Class
Country
Discussion
Ruling
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I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
Rush Limbaugh / Talk Show Host
Adopted
Class
Liberalism
Misery
Phrases
Ruling
Seems
Used
Now
Washington
Equally
Phrase
Ruling Class
Spreading
Throughout
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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 / Journalist
Monotheism
Pagan
Ruling
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But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.
John Marshall Harlan / American Lawyer
Citizens
Class
Constitution
Dominant
Eye
Law
Ruling
Caste
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View
Superior
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I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.
David Clennon / Actor
Germany
Moral
Ruling
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American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.
Noam Chomsky / Linguist
Class
Decline
Disaster
Familiar
Perception
Real
Ruling
Vision
Reflects
Ruling Class
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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 /
Capitalism
Checks
Ruling
Balances
Checks And Balances
Constitutional
Restore
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Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
Jack Schwartz /
Caught
Helpless
Ruling
Tragedy
Imposed
Jews
Natives
Piece
Ruling Class
Struggling
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I'm here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn't working for them, because I know it isn't. I'm here to say it's not your fault: the ruling class... has failed you.
Wendy Long /
American Dream
Ruling
Failed
Ruling Class
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In the mid 19th century, it had taken a generation of political rhetoric to induce southern soldiers to fight for the interests of a small ruling class in the name of democracy.
Heather Cox Richardson /
Rhetoric
Ruling
Induce
Mid
Ruling Class
Soldiers
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Too many in Washington display a ruling class mentality, and congressional term limits would go a long way towards restoring the citizen-legislator ethos of the Founding Fathers.
Ron Desantis /
Display
Ethos
Founding
Limits
Long Way
Mentality
Restoring
Ruling
Term
Long Way Long Way
Congressional
Washington
Fathers
Founding Fathers
Towards
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx / Philosopher
Society
Class
Epoch
Force
Ideas
Intellectual
Ruling
Same
Material
Ruling Class
Same Time
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
Tana French / Novelist
Class
Hierarchy
Ireland
Ruling
Work Out
Years
Hundred Years
Ruling Class
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Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.
Frankie Boyle / Comedian
Class
Don't Care
Enormous
Ruling
Speeding
Upset
Helicopter
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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 / Film Writer
America
Class
Hair
Ruling
Symbolic
Everyone Else
Needing
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal / Writer
Government
Class
Genius
Heavy
Majority
People
Questioning
Return
Ruling
Taxes
Government People Nothing
Along
Ever
Inequity
Paying
Ruling Class
System
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In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'
Steven Pinker / Psychologist
Class
Ideas
Liberalism
Political
Ruling
Wimps
Correct
Intellectuals
Marx
Radicals
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The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.
Tucker Carlson / Commentator
Arrogant
Good Fortune
Judgmental
Ruling
Self Awareness
Virtue
Highly
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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.
Al Lewis / Actor
Class
Long
Ruling
Smarter
Strong
Drain
Lesson
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In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
Paul Robeson / Singer
Class
Danger
Deep Desire
Desire
East
Hysteria
Land
Notion
Propaganda
Ruling
Threatened
Drive
Fact
False
In Fact
Minds
Ruling Class
Stepped
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I always prided myself on being apart from the ruling class. I think it's always important, not just in Washington but in life, to be able to able to balance your sense of belonging with what it's like to be someone who doesn't belong.
Mark Leibovich / Journalist
Ruling
Life Myself Always
Apart
Belong
Ruling Class
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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 / Editor
Controversial
Grapes
Ruling
Wind
Wrath
Be True
Dared
Gone With The Wind
Ruling Class
Themes
Viewpoint
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For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.
Jay S. Walker /
Different Ways
Human History
Phenomenon
Ruling
Fairly
Everybody Else
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This is the fundamental problem with the ruling class in Washington, D.C. - the party bosses, the K Street crowd, the lobbyists who control all these politicians. They will do anything to maintain their power. They will do anything. They will say anything.
Corey Lewandowski /
Class
Lobbyists
Ruling
Bosses
Washington
Politicians
Street
Fundamental
Maintain
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Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or the colonizers - it's against a deeply held set of beliefs and assumptions that we women, far too often, hold ourselves.
Kavita Ramdas /
Women
Class
Feminism
Inspiration
Motivation
Movement
Ruling
Social
Struggle
Against
Almost
Assumptions
Beliefs
Too
Often
Deeply
Distinct
Set
Far
Hold
Unlike
Held
Oppressor
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Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.
Tucker Carlson / Commentator
Decadence
Dubai
Hypocrisy
Rant
Ruling
Arab
Bin
Love Hate Live
Nightclub
Picturing
Ruling Class
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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 /
Bureaucrats
Class
Cuba
Destruction
Former
Guy
Intention
Misery
Nicaragua
North Korea
Permanent
Poverty
Ruling
Soviet
Soviet Union
Venezuela
Vietnam
Little
Created
Field
Instead
Leveling
Making
North
Playing
Union
Ruling Class
Start
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Our modern understanding of cultural appropriation is highly individualised. It's all about what Halloween costume you wear, or who's cooking biryani. But the way in which the idea was first used was to describe a relationship of dominance and exploitation between a global ruling class and a globally subjugated one.
Ash Sarkar /
Relationship
Appropriation
Class
Cooking
Dominance
Exploitation
Halloween
Ruling
Understanding
Used
Between
Idea
Costume
Cultural
Describe
Global
Wear
Highly
Ruling Class
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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 / Poet
Discussion
Labor
Occupy Wall Street
Ruling
World People New
Occupy
One Percent
Ruling Class
Wall Street
Withhold
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