Randy Duke Cunningham Quotes

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

Mrs. Hoover has offered to the South and to the nation an arrogant insult yesterday.

An issue between a people and a class

The supremacist ideology of the Bush Administration stands in opposition to the principles of an open society, which recognize that people have different views and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. The supremacist ideology postulates that just because we are stronger than others, we know better and have right on our side.

There were the well-to-do intellectuals, pushed toward Fascism by their hostility to the working masses and by their disdain of the uncouth ways of the Socialists who, without adequate preparation, had taken possession of many municipalities and had been administering them in a manner even more ridiculous than dishonest.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

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.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

Harmony? No! Class war! Hatred to the death for the criminal bourgeoisie!

The question is very simple. Shall the common man be pushed back in the mud, or shall he not? That was the real issue of the Spanish war.

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

The class struggle, to which Marx has specially drawn attention, is a real factor, the tokens of which are to be found on every page of history. But the struggle is not confined only to two classes: the proletariat and the capitalist; it occurs between an infinite number of groups with different interests, and above all between the elites contending for power. The existence of these groups may vary in duration, they may be based on permanent or more or less temporary characteristics. In the most savage peoples, and perhaps in all, sex determines two of these groups.

Governmental Communism … is repugnant to the worker.

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

We don't take over the means of those whom we abhor.

The class struggle does not permit supporting any governmental initiative or sharing in political power.

I dislike Communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.