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Class Quotes by Vladimir Lenin
- A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence…
- Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
- To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real essence…
- Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
- Our aim is to achieve a socialist system of society, which, by eliminating the division of mankind into classes, by eliminating all exploitation of man…
- People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out…
- One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle…
- The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to…
- Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis…
- A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level…
- The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
- Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its…
- We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a…
- War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.
- When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
- Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when the working people…
- If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on…
- The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.
- The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
- Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial…
- During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and…
- Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment,…
More Class Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country. — Robert Baden-Powell