Nick Sagan Quotes

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

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!

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

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

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

Revolution by the have-nots has a way of inducing a moral revelation among the haves.

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers are slaves.

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.

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

Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

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

You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

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.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

For we went, changing our country more often than our shoes In the class war, despairing When there was only injustice and no resistance

The most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.