Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat. — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
My anarchism is frankly anarcho-communalism, and it's eco-anarchism as well. And it's not oriented toward the proletariat. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism! — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig.… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
The failure of the Russian Socialist Republic will be the defeat of the proletariat of the whole world. — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history… — Walter Ciszek Copy Share Image
When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise,… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses… — Bela Kun Copy Share Image
The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which… — Mikhail Kalinin Copy Share Image
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Terror, as the demonstration of the will and strength of the working class, is historically justified, precisely because the proletariat was able… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In Russia itself the proletariat conquered in spite of the fact that there was no Soviet State in existence at the time… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
People think that they have no right to judge a fact - all they have to do is to accept it. Thus… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“The most striking fact of the day was the misery of the industrial proletariat. Despite the growth of the economy, or perhaps… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. — Andrei Platonov Copy Share Image
2 is a proletariat prime, but 4, 6 and 8 are also composite proletariats. Composites of the world unite; you have nothing… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrialization, but 'inevitable' isn't the same as 'speedy.' — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
We are the party of the Czechoslovak proletariat and our general headquarters are in Moscow. — Klement Gottwald Copy Share Image
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
