Quotes About Oppression

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Thus, in imagination, individuals seem freer under the dominance of the bourgeoisie than before, because their conditions of life seem accidental; in reality, of course, they are less free, because they are to a greater extent governed by material forces.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

La tradición de todas las generaciones muertas oprime como una pesadilla el cerebro de los vivos.

The new era differs from the old chiefly in that the lash begins to imagine itself possessed of genius.

Die Proletarier dieser Welt haben nichts zu verlieren als ihre Ketten. Sie haben eine Welt zu gewinnen. Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!

The bourgeoisie, in truth, is bound to fear the stupidity of the masses so long as they remain conservative, and the insight of the masses as soon as they become revolutionary.

Ji bilî zincîrên xwe tiÅŸtekî ku proleter ji dest bidin nîn e. Lê cîhaneke ku bi dest bixin heye. Karkerên hemû welatan, bibin yek!

This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed.

The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.

El poder político es simplemente el poder organizado de una clase para oprimir a otra.

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Government hears only its own voice … It knows it hears only its own voice and yet it deceives itself that it hears the people's voice.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

Religion is the moan of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Proletaryan?n, zincirlerinden baÅŸka kaybedecek bir ÅŸeyi yoktur. Ama kazanacaklar? bir dünya vard?r.

How lame an anti-climax! If the working-class has remained "poor," only "less poor" in proportion as it produces for the wealthy class "an intoxicating augmentation of wealth and power," then it has remained relatively just as poor.

The Proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

The history of all hitherto existing society2 is the history of class struggles.

La société bourgeoise moderne, élevée sur les ruines de la société féodale, n'a pas aboli les antagonismes de classes. Elle n'a fait que substituer aux anciennes de nouvelles classes, de nouvelles conditions d'oppression, de nouvelles formes de lutte.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Sanayinin geliÅŸmesiyle birlikte egemen s?n?f?n birçok kesimi kendini proletarya saflar?nda bulur ya da en az?ndan varl??? tehlikeye girer. Bu kesimler proletaryaya yeni ayd?nlanma ve ilerleme öÄŸeleri saÄŸlarlar.