Quotes About Oppression

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

America, like a few other nations, has become characteristic for the depth of the abyss that divide a handful of brutal millionaires who are stagnating in a mire of luxury, and millions of laboring starving men and women who are always staring want in the face.

The exploiting classes need political rule to maintain exploitation, i.e., in the selfish interests of an insignificant minority against the vast majority of all people. The exploited classes need political rule in order to completely abolish all exploitation, i.e., in the interests of the vast majority of the people, and against the insignificant minority consisting of the modern slave-owners – the landowners and capitalists.

Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of "advanced" countries. And this "booty" is shared between two or

The more democratic the system of government is, the clearer it will be to the workers that the root of the evil is not the lack of rights, but capitalism.

Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of "advanced" countries. And this "booty" is shared between two or three powerful world plunderers armed to the teeth (America, Great Britain, Japan), who are drawing the whole world into their war over the division of their booty.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The roots of modern religion are deeply embedded in the social oppression of the working masses.

Crime is a product of social excess.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament - such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism, not only in parliamentary-constitutional monarchies, but also in the most democratic republics.

Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses

Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.

Peace reigned in Europe, but this was because domination over hundreds of millions of people in the colonies by the European nations was sustained only through constant, incessant, interminable wars, which we Europeans do not regard as wars at all, since all too often they resembled, not wars, but brutal massacres, the wholesale slaughter of unarmed peoples.

I can't listen to music because it makes me want to say sweet, silly things, and pat people on the head… but you have to beat people's heads, beat them mercilessly! … What a devilishly difficult job I have.

O Estado é "uma força especial de repressão". Esta notável e profunda definição de Engels é de uma absoluta clareza. Dela resulta que essa força especial de repressão do proletariado pela burguesia, de milhões de trabalhadores por um punhado de ricos, deve ser substituída por uma "força especial de repressão" da burguesia pelo proletariado (a ditadura do proletariado)

Capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of "advanced" countries. And this "booty" is shared between two or three powerful world plunderers armed to the teeth (America, Great Britain, Japan), who are drawing the whole world into their war over the division of their booty. III

A slave that understands his position and struggles against is a revolutionary. A slave that doesn't understand that he is enslaved and vegetates in silent, unconscious and speechless life, is just a slave. A slave that salivates when complacently describing delights of slave life and that is enraptured by good and kind master is a cad, a serf.

All and sundry manifestations of police tyranny and autocratic outrage, in addition to the evils connected with the economic struggle, are equally "widely applicable" as a means of "drawing in" the masses.

According to Marx, the state could neither have arisen or maintained itself had it been possible to reconcile classes.

According to Marx, the state is an organ of class rule, an organ for the oppression of one class by another; it is the creation of "order", which legalizes and perpetuates this oppression by moderating the conflict between classes.

Os escravos assalariados de hoje, em conseqüência da exploração capitalista, vivem por tal forma acabrunhados pelas necessidades e pela miséria, que nem tempo têm pa-ra se ocupar de "democracia" ou de "política"; no curso normal e pacífico das coisas a maioria da população se encontra afastada da vida política e social.

In reality the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.