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The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Government
The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
- Work
What the bourgeoisie, therefore, produces, above all, is its own grave-diggers.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Economics
Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Freedom
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Work
If a governor comes out of his government rich, they say he has been a thief; and if he comes out poor, that he has been a noodle and a blockhead.
Miguel de Cervantes1547–1616Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Chapter LVIn context
- Government
What is the city but the people?
William Shakespeare1564–1616Coriolanus (c. 1608), Act III, Scene I, spoken by SiciniusIn context
- Democracy
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me? the State may be given up for lost.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778The Social Contract (1762), Book III, Chapter XVIn context
- Government
- Responsibility
Your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Animals
- Economics
If ill opinions cannot be quite rooted out, and you cannot cure some received vice according to your wishes, you must not, therefore, abandon the commonwealth, for the same reasons as you should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the winds.
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Government
- Responsibility
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Oliver Goldsmith1728–1774The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Economics
- Money
If, when yarn we are winding, It chances to tangle, then, as perchance you may know, through the skein
This way and that still the spool we keep passing till it is finally clear all again:
So to untangle the War and its errors, ambassadors out on all sides we will send
This way and that, here, there and round about⁠—soon you will find that the
War has an end.
Aristophanes446–386 BCLysistrata (411 BC), spoken by LysistrataIn context
- War & Peace
When everyone is dead the Great Game is finished. Not before.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Kim (1901), Chapter XIIIn context
- Life & Death
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh1921–2021In 1981, in reference to an economic recession, as quoted in “Long line of princely gaffes”, BBC News (1 March 2002).
- Economics
- Work