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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.

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.

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

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

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

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.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.