Best Class Conflict Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A class cannot exist in society without in some degree manifesting a consciousness of itself as a group with common problems, interests and prospects - although this manifestation may for long periods be weak, confused, and subject to manipulation by other classes.”

Class Class Consciousness Class Conflict

Author:Harry Braverman

“In Nevada I could feel the Long Crisis with a terrifying intimacy, as if it was some sort of uncanny, bodily contact— like the feeling you get camped out in the swirling, galaxy-littered darkness of the open range when a reptile brushes up against your prostrate body. Except that the reptile at least shares with you some deep, serpentine connection, a lineage lost somewhere in the plummet of primeval time. The Crisis, on the other hand, is a vast creature, not contained by familiar scales of time or space. It is a social terror made of masses of machinery and animals, yet not in any way kin to these components. And what we sense of it today is merely one of its many limbs extending backward from its true body writhing somewhere just out of sight, at home in our own incomprehensible future.”

Politics Economics Crisis Inequality Sociology Class Warfare Class War Class Conflict Cosmic Horror

Book:Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict

Source: Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict

“We have thus seen that even the most favorable situation for the working class, namely, the most rapid growth of capital, however much it may improve the material life of the worker, does not abolish the antagonism between his interests and the interests of the capitalist. Profit and wages remain as before, in inverse proportion.”

Profit Wages Capital Class Conflict

Book:Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit

Source: Wage-Labour and Capital & Value, Price and Profit

“The road to Hell is paved with evildoers, they'd tell us. And the evildoers were those who had bad thoughts. We always wanted to be good. We believed that to be good was to bow one's head, not to protest, not to demand anything, not to get angry. No one had clarified these things for us. On the contrary, we were always being offered a celestial paradise. The reward for being good. To respect one's neighbor was really to respect the landowner. And to respect the landowner was to conform to his whimsey. If there were no beans to eat after working on the plantation, it was because the landowner couldn't manage, the landowner was suffering losses. If there were no hammocks to sleep in, it was because the harvest had not left the landowner enough time to provide them. And there we were without food, waiting for the afternoon or the evening to go home to eat, a whole day without eating; or we'd go to sleep under the pepetos trees in the coffee fields. We used to confuse goodness with resignation.”

Religion Catholic Church El Salvador Class Consciousness Class Conflict

Book:One Day of Life

Source: One Day of Life

“Consider how many conservatives are motivated by hatred of the wealthy or elites. They do not know who these elites are, and have never met them, which is why they cannot comprehend that these elites are simply getting wealthy by following the trend cascade. Such “conservatives” talk about guillotines and revolutions as if these would solve the situation, forgetting that what got us into this situation was overthrowing our natural leaders and replacing them with the temporary favorites of the mob. The people who succeed in this society do so by taking advantage of trends. If a lot of people believe something, there is money and power in it. Therefore, if you want to succeed, you repeat the dogma and intensify it without considering that it is true. Nothing else explains why you suddenly have circus freaks walking the streets, working in government, and dominating what is left of your arts and culture. The elites, Freemasons, Jews, Bilderbergers, Davos, and Illuminati did not do this to you; you did it to yourselves.”

Democracy Conformity Trends Crowd Mob Class Conflict Getting Rich

Author:Brett Stevens

“People turned against each other cannot turn against those responsible.”

“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.”

“The bang of the modernist metal doorknocker exploded in the room. Jolting upright on the edge of the couch, Isa froze, her heart beating a discordance of dread. Her mind went blank as she stared at the door. No.”

Identity Gripping Real Estate Debut Novel Suspenseful Societal Expectations Inner Turmoil Class Conflict Lush Landscapes Tropical Settings

Book:A Delicate Marriage

Source: A Delicate Marriage

“you can't hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella”

Social Revolution Review Tender Is The Night Class Conflict

Author:Philip Rahv

“Appena parla di imposte sul capitale, dal centro lo interrompono: «Sul suo capitale!». Al suo primo discorso alla Camera, dopo poco più di trecento parole pronunciate, gli viene ripresentata la colpa della sua ricchezza. «Naturalmente anche sul mio» risponde lesto e beffardo «avete impegnato tanto tempo a capirlo?».”

Eloquence Class Conflict Political Debate Italian Politics

Book:Tempesta: La vita (e non la morte) di Giacomo Matteotti

Source: Tempesta: La vita (e non la morte) di Giacomo Matteotti

“Adrian kom denna klara höst till socialisterna, dit varje ung individualist kommer, då han vill söka uttrycket för sin individualism, utan att finna det. Människan vill aristokrati. Den fattigaste arbetare älskar djupast sett endast lyxkvinnan, som bäst förkroppsligar hans kvinnoideal, står över hans förnuft och även över klasskampen, liksom skönheten står över allting. Men när den ensamme icke når dit han vill, då går individualisten till socialisterna och inordnar sig i kampen för den demokratiska idén." (Sid. 231)”

Beauty Individualism Aristocracy Democratic Socialism Class Conflict Ideal Woman 1930s Stockholm

Book:Kungsgatan

Source: Kungsgatan

“Så hade Adrian blivit borgare, inte arbetare, och Moderats sätt mot honorn förändrades [...] därför att han blivit "fin". Under alla de följande åren skulle Adrian komma att bli en kronans tjänsteman. Han kunde därmed tillräkna sig respekt överallt, till och med i Humla, där man brukade säga, allvarligt som om det varit ett ordspråk: "Kronans kaka är liten, det må vara sant, men naggande god är den .. ." Man menade därmed, att den var säker, att lita på, nästan som jorden själv." (Sid. 92)”

Public Servants Class Conflict 1930s Stockholm Bourgeois Priviliges Employment Protection

Book:Kungsgatan

Source: Kungsgatan

“This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. The productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. On it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.”

“You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.”

Class Conflict Illusion Teeth Remedy Grandeur Semantics Class Conflict Illusions Of Grandeur

Book:Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944

Source: Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944

“What's kind of happening is the conflict over football might be a class conflict where there is a percentage of people who have no relationship to physicality and a percentage of the populace who still does.”

People Kind Doe Stills Might Class Football Conflict Happenings Percentages Physicality Class Conflict

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

War Political Politics Winning Class Poverty Rich Inequality Warfare Class Struggle Class Warfare Wealth Inequality Class Conflict

Author:Warren Buffett

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense”

“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.”

Men Country Politics Class Fit Every Man Repeats Dogma Mills Class Conflict

Book:Annihilation of Caste

Source: Annihilation of Caste

“I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.”

World Different Enemy Class Technology Conflict Computer Theology Elites Different Worlds Techno Class Conflict

Author:Walt Mossberg

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”