Ruling Classes

Famous quotes containing the words ruling classes, ruling and/or classes:

    “Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)

    “What is an atheist, but one who does not, or will not, see in the universe a ruling principle of love; and what a misanthrope, but one who does not, or will not, see in man a ruling principle of kindness?”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)