Feudalism 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
But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development from… — Vladimir Lenin
When socialism comes into power, the Roman Church will advocate socialism with the same vigor [with which] it is now favoring feudalism and slavery. — August Bebel
It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew exactly who was… — Kevin Carson
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In… — Timothy Leary
Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of… — Kwame Nkrumah
When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of time… — Kate Millett
What I have learned about corporate capitalism, roughly, is that it is an act of theft, by and large, through which a very few live… — Karl Hess
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become more apt as… — Jedediah Purdy
Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the economy,… — Robert Higgs
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know… — C L R James
Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man.… — Herbert Spencer
Whoever sides with the revolutionary people is a revolutionary. Whoever sides with imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism is a counter-revolutionary. Whomever sides with the revolutionary people… — Mao Zedong
The danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces. — Lawrence Lessig
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel
Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism...........Socialism in America… — Gus Hall
The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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