Quotes for All
By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live. Friedrich Engels
What is Communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose … Read more
Though the Floundering Fathers didn’t intend it, we now see that representative government quickly turns into the dictatorship of the proletariat. If you doubt this, I congratulate you on not having a television. Fred Reed
You’re gonna have to keep on saying that – I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You’ve got to make a distinction. Fred Hampton
God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own … by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators. Dorothy L. Sayers
A ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat’ becomes again another dictator. Dorothy Day
Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man’s greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war? Dorothy Day
I’ve grown fonder for Hillary Clinton since she ran for the presidency. I think that it’s emblematic of the Rolling Stones song, you can’t always get what you want, i.e., the grail. Sometimes you get what you need. And whatever she’s gotten over the last couple of years, being humbled or be it being humbled … Read more
Karl Marx predicted the eventual withering away of the state and the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat,’ when the people would rule, which was sheer fantasy because it was sheer fantasy because it was based on grossly erroneous assumptions about human nature, as history would repeatedly demonstrate. David Limbaugh
I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch’s] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards. Conrad Black