The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.
The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.
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.
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.
After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.
When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, "In ruling people.
The state is the executive committee of the ruling class.
The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.
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.
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.
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.
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.
. . . the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
To create such people, such People's Representatives in Indonesia, would take decades, and they can only grow up in a fundamentally different political system, and in a totally new culture. What is now governing Indonesia is morally defunct, it is corrupt. What is ruling the country now is not even a culture or a political system: it is a disease.
I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states. . . I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party. . . I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts. . . They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.