Proletarian Quotes
38 quotes by 30 authors
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Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
— Theodor Adorno
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...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,…
— Friedrich Engels
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...a great army of the proletarian party [must be] prepared to smash the reactionary forces and to clear the way for the advanced forces of…
— J. Stalin
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Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time…
— Karl Marx
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So much were employers of wage-labor unenthusiastic about proletarianization that, in addition to fostering the gender age division of labor, they also encouraged, in their…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language…
— Raymond Chandler
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Marxism is not only the theory of socialism, it is an integral world outlook, a philosophical system, from which Marx’s proletarian socialism logically follows. This…
— Joseph Stalin
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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...
— Thomas Pynchon
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I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as…
— Nicolae Ceausescu
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The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the…
— Friedrich Engels
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Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions…
— Christopher Lasch
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Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile…
— Walter Duranty
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The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of…
— C L R James
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like…
— Erica Jong
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The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a man on a sinking ship…
— Upton Sinclair
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.
— Enver Hoxha
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I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free…
— Clive James
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The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same…
— George Orwell
Who Wrote These Proletarian Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 38 Proletarian Quotes, led by these top contributors: