Famous Quotes & Sayings

Talcott Parsons

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavor to keep them disunited.

Mao Zedong

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

Karl Marx

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

Karl Marx

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.

Karl Marx

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

Karl Marx

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.

Karl Marx

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Alexander Pope

When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill.

Anais Nin

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Mike Murdock

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

Ted Hughes

The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.

Robert Bresson

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Satyajit Ray

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.