Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
With the advance of feudalism came the growth of iron armor, until, at last, a fighting-man resembled an armadillo. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
In a democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
“Africa had a kind of feudalism, like Europe based on agriculture, and with hierarchies” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We… — Majid Kazmi Copy Share Image
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew… — Kevin Carson Copy Share Image
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Conceiv'd out of the fullest heat and pulse of European feudalism -personifying ill unparalleled ways the medieval aristocracy, its towering spirit of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism,… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Feudalism is an economic system where a few people own all the land and the others have no option but to be… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In Hwang’s view, the Pyongyang leadership “used the feudalistic idea of filial piety to justify absolutism of the Great Leader. Filial piety… — Bradley K. Martin Copy Share Image
“Ebenezer Howard’s vision of the Garden City would seem almost feudal to us. He seems to have thought that members of the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Marx’s Manifesto, published in 1847, reflects the state of historical science of the period. It fixes the thirteenth century as the beginning… — Régine Pernoud Copy Share Image
“It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman… — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
“While I have the floor, here's a question that's been bothering me for some time. Why do so few writers of heroic… — David Brin Copy Share Image
China has a history of thousands of years of feudalism and is still lacking in socialist democracy and socialist legality. We are… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after… — Gus Hall Copy Share Image
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
“Modern writers usually don't know what it was like to live in the past, but Rushworth-Brown has done this with great skill… — Paul Rushworth-Brown Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church... upheld feudalism, then monarchism, warning of growing evils and possible revolutions. In the same manner, and under the same… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image