Class Iron Crosses

Famous quotes containing the words class, iron and/or crosses:

“By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)

“In the course of history, men come to see that “iron necessity” is neither iron nor necessary.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)