Best class & struggle Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.”

People Looks Country Stories Bigs Seems Class Struggle Fans Labor Mark Our Country Epic Royalty Life Struggle Upper Class

Author:Lucas Neff

“I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.”

World Way Happens Father Class Struggle Seeing Rage Immigrants Tied Working Class Tied Up

Author:Dennis Lehane

“What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.”

Existence Class Struggle Particular Development Prove Historical Bounds Productions Transition Dictatorship Phases Abolition Proletariat Class Struggle Classless Society

Book:The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Source: The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

“Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last analysis reflects the tendencies and ideology of the antagonistic classes in modern society.”

Philosophy Lasts Party Behinds Class Struggle Failing Modern Criticism Tendencies Ideology Analysis Modern Society Scholasticism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.”

Mind Ability Class Struggle Horizon Educate Magnitude

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!”

People Ifs Problem Happens Class Struggle Violence Mass Socialism Plates Class Struggle

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the 'right' of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the 'property rights' of slave masters in their slaves. Moreover, by this method the State achieves a goal common to all totalitarian regimes: it sets us against each other, so that our energies are spent in the struggle between State-created classes, rather than in freeing all individuals from the State.”

“The [Communist] Party has one objective: the creation of a socialist economy; and one means: the utilization of the class struggle.”

Mean Party Class Struggle Economy Creation Objectives Communist Socialist Class Struggle Communist Party Utilization Socialist Economy

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.”

Mind Kind Class Struggle Groups Modern Type Hatred Creeds Modern Society Class Struggle

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.”

Source: Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes

“I work in the field of art, and you know how during a period of Marxist ideology, fewer people are inclined to believe in the power of the culture as a whole: they believe in the revolutionary potential of economics, class struggle theory.. ..Therefore it's time to show that art means the power of creativity, and it's time to define art in a larger way, to include science and religion too..(1973”

“There's a place in the world for the angry young man With his working class ties and his radical plans He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl He's always at home with his back to the wall And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross And he likes to be known as the angry young man.”

Men World Home Young Lost Known Class Struggle Plans Wall Proud Battle Crosses Angry Refuse Likes Radical Ties Young Man Scar Working Class Places In The World

Author:Billy Joel

“History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.”

Mean Spiritual Values Church Race Class Struggle Blood Conflict Tasks Folks Dogma Settlement Spiritual Values

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form. His class has been helpful to thousands of people. I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness. Joyfulness is our birthright. This book shows you how to reclaim it.”

People Giving Has Beens Book Shows Form Joy Class Struggle Plans Creating Available Awakening Helpful Clients Birthright Joyfulness

Author:M. J. Ryan

“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.”

“This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.”

World Giving Persons Class Struggle Atheism Strive Worthy Noble Immortality

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.”

Ends Fighting Poor Class Break Struggle Rich Middle Taxes Extraordinary Middle Class Afghanistan Tax Breaks Mega

Author:Warren Buffett

“Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.”

Thinking Mind Different States Black Poor Accepting Class Poverty Struggle Middle Middle Class State Of Mind

Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.”

“The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.”

Two Class Struggle Contradiction Resolve Class Struggle

Book:The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

Source: The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

“For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves, both of which, by relieving some classes from the perpetual struggle for a bare subsistence, afford them an opportunity of devoting themselves to that disinterested pursuit of knowledge which is the noblest and most powerful instrument to ameliorate the lot of man.”

“Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.”

People Self Class Struggle Middle Middle Class Absorption Self Absorption

Author:Benjamin Lewin

“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.”

Men Death Mother Differences Sleep Accepting Class Struggle Kings Men And Women Breathing Spells Twins Sheets Pathetic Beggar Majestic Castes

Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories

“I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.”

Ifs Men Should Years Believe Humans Done Lasts I Believe Sex My Own Known Class Struggle Rights Should Have Human Rights Thirty Denied Continents Devoted Behalf Thirty Years Legal Rights

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.”

Certain Class Struggle Members Liberation Oppressed Oppressors Pedagogy Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.”

Ifs Mean Persons Seems Might Dies Bits Class Struggle Rich Negative Universal Determined Working Class Get Rich

Author:Curtis Jackson

“I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.”

Thinking Men Kind Important Hands Black Class Millions Struggle Middle Example Acknowledge Rely Middle Class March Commodity

Author:Angela Davis

“There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.”

Speak Justice Poor Party Class Struggle Rights Economic Middle Concern Democratic Middle Class Our Society Agendas Democratic Party Marginalized Economic Justice

Author:Mike McCurry

“The abolition of the class struggle does not mean the abolition of the need to struggle as a principle of development.”

Needs Mean Doe Class Principles Struggle Development Abolition Class Struggle

Author:Antonio Gramsci

“In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole.”

Whole Interest Class Struggle Stage Movement Development Various Working Class Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto Stages Of Development

Book:The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

Source: The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English

“You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself”

World Mean Long Film Views Powerful Class Struggle Divorce Mediums Cinema Most Powerful Hierarchy

Author:Sally Potter

“The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter is not a current of opinion, not a tendency; it (opportunism) has now become the organised tool of the bourgeoisie within the working class movement.”

Whole Party Opinion Class Struggle Movement Europe Tools Currents Tendencies Latter Working Class Bourgeoisie Organised Opportunism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.”

People Guy Class Audience Struggle Middle Crosses Average Middle Class

Author:Tavis Smiley

“Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.”

Class Struggle Middle Dad My Family My Dad Middle Class

Author:Tavis Smiley

“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace - business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering”

War Enemy Class Struggle Financial Banking Speculation Monopoly Reckless Antagonism New Deal Corporatism

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5

“The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.”

Want Problem Nations Class Poverty Struggle Economic Unnecessary Transitory Muddle Economic Problems

Author:John Maynard Keynes

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