Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 208 authors

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle. — Cesar Luis Menotti
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th… — Alfred Marshall
What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." — Harry Bridges
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism,… — Alain de Benoist
Humans were still not only the cheapest robots around, but also, for many tasks, the only robots that could do the job. They were self-reproducing… — Kim Stanley
I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. — Dalton Trumbo
Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people. — Martin Scorsese
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. — John Hume
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the… — John Hume
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and to the extent… — Eugene V. Debs
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
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. — Elia Kazan
The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing. — Karl Marx
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of the German working… — Karl Marx
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. — Len Deighton
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives… — Vida Goldstein

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