Marina Abramovic Quotes

You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

I guess what I learned about myself is I'm a bit of a socialist; I want everyone on the set to get equal treatment and credit.

What enchants me the most here is that all citizens are brothers. In America there are no poor, not even what one might call peasants.

I never really am in awe of people because we are just equal at the end of the day.

I think... I'm perceived as an everyperson. There is no pedestal. I'm no different from anybody else.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

I've always felt that, in America, we're all equal. I don't care what you make or what kind of car you drive. You're not better than me.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

We must be thoroughly democratic and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

We are all members of one body …. The benefit of one is the benefit of all.

We can not subscribe to one law for the weak and another law for the strong; one law for us, another for our opponents.

What is not good for everyone is not good for anyone.

Communism might be likened to a race in which all competitors come in first with no prizes.

We are a nation without classes or special privileges.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

Here, no privileged orders – no factitious distinctions in society – no hereditary nobility – no royal prerogatives exist, to interpose barriers between the people, and to create distinct classifications in society. All men being considered as enjoying an equality of rights, the propriety and necessity of dispensing, without distinction, the blessings of education ….

In the past, civilization has been a heritage enjoyed by a few upon a basis of the brutalization of the vast multitude …. nation aims at a civilization of the whole resting upon the whole, and only made possible by the educated co-operation of an educated whole.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.

Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still themost important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.

Equality is what does not exist among mortals.

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of this ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the individual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't