Wagner Moura Quotes

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.

In the modern world, it is not the poor and the oppressed who have led the great revolutions and/or carried out the worst deeds of violence; rather, it is militant vanguards from among the better educated and more moneyed circles of society.

The masses of the working-people of Scotland have read history, and are no revolutionary levelers.

Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence.

The first liberating revolutions never destroyed the large landholding powers that always constituted a reactionary force and upheld the principle of servitude on the land.

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

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

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

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Every class struggle is a political struggle

Agitators are a set of interfering meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary.

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

A revolution [is] not a single act, but rather a chain of collisions and conflicts with the ruling class, which is never ready to submit itself to the will of a democratic majority, but rather defends its predominant position with all means at its disposal, with the help of the powers which the state has built up—the army, the police, the courts and the church

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

No great revolution can happen in a state without revolutions or mutations of private property.

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

In a county where power is in the hands of the local tyrants and evil gentry, the magistrate, whoever he may be, is almost invariably a corrupt official. In a county where the peasants have risen there is clean government, whoever the magistrate.

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

All great revolutions are led by aristocrats.

The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place.

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?

Since the third century Christianity has always served simultaneously those who supported the social order and those who wished to overthrow it... .