Quotes About Working class

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

Until they became the British Empire's greatest voyagers, indeed its greatest export, settling in odd places all around the world. And for that splinter of them that became my people, the Scots-Irish, this meant the Appalachian Mountains, their first stop on their way to creating a way of life that many would come to call, if not American, certainly the defining fabric of the South and the Midwest as well as the core character of the nation's working class.

Why according to tomorrow's paper the proletariat will not rise yesterday.

The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.

Except for the two years he had lived with cowboys in North Dakota,and being the employer of a dozen or so servants,Roosevelt had never had to suffer any prolonged intimacy with the working class.From infancy,he had enjoyed the perquisites of money and social position.The money,through his own mismanagement,had often run short,and he was by no means wealthy even now, but he had always taken exclusivity for granted.

Saint-Simon was aware of the role of class struggle in history. Thus he divided contemporary French society into the industriels and the oisifs—those who worked, and the rich parasites who lived off their labor.

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

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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.

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.

We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.

She still called it dinner, although the vicar had tried to educate her for years that the working classes had their dinner at midday, but the upper classes had luncheon.

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them.

La classe ouvrière est beaucoup plus nombreuse que la classe dirigeante, et plus forte. Ces gens là dépendent entièrement de nous. C'est nous qui produisons leur nourriture, qui construisons leurs maisons, qui fabriquons leurs vêtements. Sans nous, ils sont morts. Ils ne peuvent pas se permettre n'importe quoi, sauf si nous les laissons faire. N'oublie jamais ça.

It has come to pass', she wrote, in lines that reverberate still, 'that the working class is used, so to speak, as the unit of the moral investigation, until we well nigh believe that this class is the chief repository of the vices and virtues of the nation'.

Special tours were arranged for various constituencies. On one occasion a tour for the working class was advertised, but only one workman showed up, along with a mysterious stranger of another class who bought half the paintings on display, including works by Picasso, Kokoschka, and Janco.