Chris Cornell Quotes

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

An educated proletariat is a constant source of disturbance and danger to any nation.

All past history with the exception of the primitive stages was the history of class struggles.

History is made in the class struggle and not in bed.

The history of all hither-to-existing society is the history of class struggles.

If the result of so many sacrifices was that the capitalists remain in control, what was the point of the revolution?

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.

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.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.