Class Quote by C. L. R. James

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been…

— C. L. R. James

We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

It was a new kind of class war -- the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.

— Irving Kristol

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The trade union members who formed themselves into militias and chased the Fascists back to Saragossa in the first few weeks of war had…

— George Orwell

The institutions at the centre of capitalism are bigger than they've ever been, the pay is much greater, the ability of society to get…

— Michael Lewis

Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to swallow, but…

— Amartya Sen

Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the…

— George Packer

“You can imagine how distraught I feel when I hear about the glorified heroism-free “middle class values,” which, thanks to globalization and the Internet,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“There was another reason why the dollar's hegemony grew: the intentional impoverishment of America's working class. A cynic will tell you quite accurately that…

— Yanis Varoufakis

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

— Danny Glover

“The class war had turned democracy into a contest in legislative looting.”

— Will Durant