Class Quote by Eugene V. Debs Download Open image “The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.” — Eugene V. Debs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Class Economic Economics Economy Global economy Political Politics Ruling
The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. — Karl Kautsky Copy Share Image
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There's no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can't work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking at their… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar models of… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being… — Sally Wentworth Copy Share Image
Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. I would not lead you out… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
From the crown of my head to the soles of my feet I am Bolshevik, and proud of it. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.” — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created. — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of Robert Ingersoll , just after the news of Robert's death} We were inexpressibly shocked to hear… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
You’re crazy,” said her best friend, Angela, as the bell rang to signal five minutes before the first class on the first day back… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. — Anonymous Copy Share Image