Feudal Quotes

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The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in… — Emily Greene Balch
Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists? — Alexis de Tocqueville
As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is… — Jose Mujica
Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in… — Michael Parenti
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world… — Kim Stanley
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions. — Henry A. Kissinger
All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them… — Harriet Martineau
Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than… — Friedrich Engels
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of… — Theodor Adorno
We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives,… — John Battelle
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and… — Hervey Allen
The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is… — Winston Churchill
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate… — Horatio Alger
According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns… — Paul Craig Roberts
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the… — Mao Zedong
America's egalitarian mandate reflects the liberality of the creator, and thus countermands, by divine witness, all feudal and aristocratic structures. It also parallels the Jewish… — Forrest Church
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… — Mary McCarthy
There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way… — Reinhold Niebuhr
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external and… — Louis Sullivan

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