William Tecumseh Sherman Quotes

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

The masses of the working-people of Scotland have read history, and are no revolutionary levelers.

I am not given to Political Economy, but I can use my eyes. I have never seen the masters (mill owners) getting thin and haggard for want of food

Political struggles are due, in the last analysis, to class struggles; these struggles increase in scope and seriousness as capital becomes concentrated …

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

Between the working class and the capitalist class, there is an irrepressible conflict, a class struggle for life. No glib-tongued politician can vault over it, no capitalist professor or official statistician can argue it away; no capitalist parson can veil it; no labor faker can straddle it; no “reform” architect can bridge it over. It crops up in all manner of ways

Ever greater grows the mass of the proletariat, ever vaster the army of the unemployed, ever sharper the contrast between oppressors and oppressed, ever fiercer that war of classes between bourgeoisie and proletariat which divides modern society into two hostile camps and is the common characteristic of ever industrial country.

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

England, the country that turns whole nations into its proletarians … seems to be the rock against which the revolutionary waves break.

To the working class there is no foreigner but the capitalist.

Workers cannot buy with their salaries what they have produced and at the same time copiously nourish the swarm of idlers who live upon their work.

Peaceful surrender of power by the bourgeoisie is possible, if it is convinced that resistance is hopeless and if it prefers to save its skin. It is much more likely, of course, that even in small states socialism will not be achieved without civil war, and for that reason the only program of international Social-Democracy must be recognition of civil war, though violence is, of course, alien to our ideals.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.