Buddhism Quote by Bastiat, Frederick

“Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.”

— Toba Beta

“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the…

— Karl Marx

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“These metaphysic rights entering into common life, like rays of light which pierce into a dense medium, are, by the laws of nature, refracted…

— Edmund Burke

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society…

— Andrew Jackson

“Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“At times of social unrest when people begin to look for alternatives it is easy for that vacuum to be filled by those who…

— Neil Ormerod

If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit…

— Karl Marx

“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social…

— Friedrich Engels

“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself a final…

— Joseph Conrad