Winston Churchill Quotes

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That's because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

People were talking about songs of the common man in order to make the common man. With Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, they were so common it was just uncommon.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

I've had several working-man songs that I like.

The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.

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

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor.

With the coming of peace, the workers are no longer needed as soldiers; they are no longer comrades, defenders of the fatherland, heroes. Once more they become beasts of burden, objects of exploitation.

Juridically they are equal; but economically the worker is the serf of the capitalist … The worker always has the right to leave his employer, but has he the means to do so? No, he does it in order to sell himself to another employer. He is driven to it by the same hunger which forces him to sell himself to the first employer.