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It might also have helped their cause. Perhaps it is a sign of how eternal Britons once considered their absurd class distinctions that they were comfortable with such mixing. Nonetheless, it was positive - as that devotee of the Cheshire Hounds, Friedrich Engels, appreciated. The author of the "Communist Manifesto" of 1848 considered fox-hunting "the greatest physical pleasure I know", the apogee of English culture and, less convincingly, a source of useful ideas for managing the revolution. What lessons should be drawn from this farrago? The obvious one is that politicians make the laws they deserve. Ill-conceived and illogical, the ban is unworkable. It allows hunts to follow an artificial scent-trail - because an outright ban could criminalise anyone taking his pet dog for a walk in the country. And because it would not be illegal for that pooch to ~ Anonymous
Communist Manifesto quotes by Anonymous
The Communist Manifesto condemned the bourgeoisie not only for pauperizing, dehumanizing, and enslaving the toiling masses, but also for robbing the intellectual of his elevated status. "The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe." Though the movement was initiated by intellectuals and powered by their talents and hungers, it yet held up the proletariat as the chosen people - the only carrier of the revolutionary idea, and the chief beneficiary of the revolution to come. The intellectuals, particularly those who had "raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole," were to act as guides - as a composite Moses - during the long wanderings in the desert. Like Moses, the intellectuals would have no more to do once the promised land was in sight. "The role of the intelligentsia," said Lenin, "is to make special leaders from among the intelligentsia unnecessary. ~ Eric Hoffer
Communist Manifesto quotes by Eric Hoffer
The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things ... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
Um. I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto. Stop talking. Stop talking NOW. ~ E.L. James
Communist Manifesto quotes by E.L. James
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.
In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so: that is just what we intend. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
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. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
European revolutions followed textbooks - Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, Karl Marx' Communist Manifesto or Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf - while Mexicans wrote their texts after the fighting was over. ~ Richard Grabman
Communist Manifesto quotes by Richard Grabman
In one way or another, these fears echoed the beliefs of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who argued in The Communist Manifesto (1848) that governments in capitalist society were political extensions of the interests of business owners. "The executive of the state," they wrote, was "nothing more than a committee for managing the affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."25 Over the following decades, scores of influential followers would advance various arguments that had in common a core theme. Marxists argued that the expansion of capitalism brought with it the reinforcement of class divisions and, through imperialism and the spread of finance capital around the world, the replication of these divisions both within countries and between them. ~ Moises Naim
Communist Manifesto quotes by Moises Naim
I feel the color in my cheeks rising again. I must be the color of The Communist Manifesto. ~ E.L. James
Communist Manifesto quotes by E.L. James
Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other - bourgeoisie and proletariat. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents! ~ George Habash
Communist Manifesto quotes by George Habash
The Communist Manifesto as political rhetoric has an almost biblical force. ~ Eric Hobsbawm
Communist Manifesto quotes by Eric Hobsbawm
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
Books can be immensely powerful. The ideas in them can change the way people think. Yet it was the Nazis and Stalin's officers who committed terrible crimes, and not Mein Kampf or the Communist Manifesto - and of course, the Manifesto contained many key ideas that are still relevant and important today, long after Stalin has gone. There is a crucial distinction between the book and its effect - it's crucial because if you talk about a book being harmful rather than its effect you begin to legitimise censorship. Abhorrent ideas need to be challenged by better ones, not banned. ~ John Farndon
Communist Manifesto quotes by John Farndon
Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell . ~ Thomas Sowell
Communist Manifesto quotes by Thomas Sowell
The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism ... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes. ~ Christopher Hitchens
Communist Manifesto quotes by Christopher Hitchens
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. ~ Max Weber
Communist Manifesto quotes by Max Weber
I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him. ~ T. Coleman Andrews
Communist Manifesto quotes by T. Coleman Andrews
In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it. ~ A.J.P. Taylor
Communist Manifesto quotes by A.J.P. Taylor
In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics. ~ Lester Bangs
Communist Manifesto quotes by Lester Bangs
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
Moreover, competition for foreign markets and the necessity for
larger and larger investments in raw materials, produce phenomena of concentration and accumulation.
First, small capitalists are absorbed by big capitalists who can maintain, for example, unprofitable prices
for a longer period. A larger and larger part of the profits is finally invested in new machines and
accumulated in the fixed assets of capital. This double movement first of all hastens the ruin of the middle
classes, who are absorbed into the proletariat, and then proceeds to concentrate, in an increasingly small
number of hands, the riches produced uniquely by the proletariat. Thus the proletariat increases in size in
proportion to its increasing ruin. Capital is now concentrated in the hands of only a very few masters,
whose growing power is based on robbery. Moreover, these masters are shaken to their foundations by
successive crises, overwhelmed by the contradictions of the system, and can no longer assure even mere
subsistence to their slaves, who then come to depend on private or public charity. A day comes,
inevitably, when a huge army of oppressed slaves find themselves face to face with a handful of
despicable masters. That day is the day of revolution. "The ruin of the bourgeoisie and the victory of the
proletariat are equally inevitable. ~ Albert Camus
Communist Manifesto quotes by Albert Camus
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
Free education for all children in public schools ... Combination of education with industrial production ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
1849 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels present, The Communist Manifesto, declaring "the abolition of private property. ~ Brian Sussman
Communist Manifesto quotes by Brian Sussman
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. ~ Karl Marx
Communist Manifesto quotes by Karl Marx
Communism is fascism, in all practical applications," he was saying now. "Can you think of a Communist country sans dictator? ~ Sara Novic
Communist Manifesto quotes by Sara Novic
At that same time, the Communist regime let the inflation run its course and then, devalued the currency. They issued a new kind of lei. Everybody could exchange 80,000 lei for 20 new lei. The day before the exchange, I had 2 million lei. For that amount, I bought two pairs of hand crocheted summer gloves; there was nothing else available. I would have preferred to purchase a kilo meat, but that was out of the question, unrealistic thinking. ~ Pearl Fichman
Communist Manifesto quotes by Pearl Fichman
Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin. ~ Noam Chomsky
Communist Manifesto quotes by Noam Chomsky
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Communist Manifesto quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the middle to late 1970s, when Putin joined the KGB, the secret police, like all Soviet institutions, was undergoing a phase of extreme bloating. Its growing number of directorates and departments were producing mountains of information that had no clear purpose, application, or meaning. An entire army of men and a few women spent their lives compiling newspaper clippings, transcripts of tapped telephone conversations, reports of people followed and trivia learned, and all of this made its way to the top of the KGB pyramid, and then to the leadership of the Communist Party, largely unprocessed and virtually unanalyzed. ~ Masha Gessen
Communist Manifesto quotes by Masha Gessen
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. ~ George Orwell
Communist Manifesto quotes by George Orwell
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Communist Manifesto quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
I am very proud of the fact that many workers in my Gau, numerous former Communists and Social Democrats were won over by us and became local group leaders and Party functionaries. ~ Fritz Sauckel
Communist Manifesto quotes by Fritz Sauckel
A number of years ago, people were saying normal relationship with Cuba, what a bad and silly idea. They're Communists, they are our enemy. Well guess what? Change has come. ~ Bernie Sanders
Communist Manifesto quotes by Bernie Sanders
The gray-haired growser, who proved to be a lawyer, had made it clear how much he loathed the people who were, in his view, attempting to undermine the American Constitution by imposing a state religion - or possibly it was "religion state by state," for his argument grew more confused with each Martini he sank. At any rate he was noisily predicting that the result would be world domination by the Communist bloc because they would wind up with a monopoly of practical science while his own people would be reduced to praying, sticking pins in chance-opened Bibles, and casting lots to decide whose eldest son should be sacrificed to stave off disaster. ~ John Brunner
Communist Manifesto quotes by John Brunner
And in contrast to the Communist revolution in Russia and the Communist attempts at revolution in Germany from 1918 through 1923, Hitler's were virtually bloodless."
-- Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, p. 44 ~ Russel H.S. Stolfi
Communist Manifesto quotes by Russel H.S. Stolfi
The patriotic fervor of a population is not always in direct proportion to its well-being and the fair dealing of its government. Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect. Hence the paradox that when government policies or historical accidents make the attainment and maintenance of individual self-respect difficult, the nationalist spirit of the people becomes more ardent and extreme. The unattainability of individual self-respect is not the least factor behind the chauvinism of the populace in Fascist and Communist regimes. ~ Eric Hoffer
Communist Manifesto quotes by Eric Hoffer
The Husband Manifesto:

I will be a better father.
I will be a better husband.
I will be a better leader.
I will be a better servant.
I will be a better man.

I will esteem my wife in front of my friends.
I will praise my wife before my family.
I will honor my wife as I honor my mother.
I will put a smile on her every day.
I will plant a kiss on her each day.
I will listen to her even when I don't feel like it.
I will love her even when I don't feel like it.
I will treat her better than I treat myself.
I will treat her as God would. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Communist Manifesto quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo
Anti-Semitism is not based on strictly religious grounds and is not directed against the Jewish faith as such. However, all German Christians resent and denounce the fact that the Jews have been the chief advocates of atheism. They have influenced the workers' children through the Communist youth organizations, of which they are the leading spirit ... ~ Ernst Hanfstaengl
Communist Manifesto quotes by Ernst Hanfstaengl
A Communist must never be opinionated or domineering, thinking that he is good in everything while others are good in nothing; he must never shut himself up in his little room, or brag and boast and lord it over others. ~ Mao Zedong
Communist Manifesto quotes by Mao Zedong
I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty. ~ John Lennon
Communist Manifesto quotes by John Lennon
Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past. ~ Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
Communist Manifesto quotes by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones, some communist ones, and many where economics are not separated out of the broader fabric of life (such as sharing and gift giving, and mutual support). ~ Cynthia Kauffman
Communist Manifesto quotes by Cynthia Kauffman
I will become my undoing if I become my obsession -excerpt from Abnegation manifesto ~ Veronica Roth
Communist Manifesto quotes by Veronica Roth
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract. ~ Dennis Prager
Communist Manifesto quotes by Dennis Prager
We must rid this nation of the United Nations, which provides the communist conspiracy with a headquarters here on our own shores, and which actually makes it impossible for the United States to form its own decisions about its conduct and policies in Europe and Asia. ~ John T. Flynn
Communist Manifesto quotes by John T. Flynn
Are you a Communist, Dora? ~ Sally Wentworth
Communist Manifesto quotes by Sally Wentworth
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International. ~ James P. Cannon
Communist Manifesto quotes by James P. Cannon
I really beleive that if the political leaders of the world could see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their outlook wouls be fundamentally changed . The all-important border would be invisible, that noisy arguement suddenly silenced. The tiny globe would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white,not rich or poor; blue and white, not envious or envied. ~ Michael Collins
Communist Manifesto quotes by Michael Collins
I'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable. ~ Tony Judt
Communist Manifesto quotes by Tony Judt
If you don't vote Socialist/Communist before you are twenty, you have no heart - if you do vote Socialist/Communist after you are twenty, you have no head. ~ Georges Clemenceau
Communist Manifesto quotes by Georges Clemenceau
Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state. ~ Michele Bernstein
Communist Manifesto quotes by Michele Bernstein
We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy. ~ Vaclav Klaus
Communist Manifesto quotes by Vaclav Klaus
The communists pave the way for him (the Jew). ~ Julius Streicher
Communist Manifesto quotes by Julius Streicher
The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important. ~ Cynthia Kauffman
Communist Manifesto quotes by Cynthia Kauffman
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp. ~ John Boyd Orr
Communist Manifesto quotes by John Boyd Orr
Busy people begrudge the days being short.
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. ~ Stanley Kubrick
Communist Manifesto quotes by Stanley Kubrick
I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution. ~ Elliott Abrams
Communist Manifesto quotes by Elliott Abrams
I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoidably clear. This is not directionless action. If it were, the media would have moved on. ~ Henry Rollins
Communist Manifesto quotes by Henry Rollins
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