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Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manifesto! — Theodore Kaczynski

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles. — Tristan Tzara

What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto! — Stephen Colbert

[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it. — Ulrike Meinhof

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history. - Greg Knight

The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history. — Greg Knight

The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism. — David Harvey

Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be! — Rosa Luxemburg

Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development. — Johann Most

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. - Susan B. Anthony

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. — Susan B. Anthony

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief — Jacques Ellul

The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads. — Giuseppe Mazzini

Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness... No form of representation is so readily comprehensible to the masses as photography. — El Lissitzky

Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be! — Rosa Luxemburg

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. — Albert Camus

Men make their own history - Karl Marx

Men make their own history — Karl Marx

Short Manifesto Quotes

  • We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
  • A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. — Karl Marx
  • Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents! — George Habash
  • Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks. — Adlai Stevenson I
  • There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry. — Duke of Wellington
  • The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win. — Karl Marx
  • In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. — Karl Marx
  • A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter. — Art Spiegelman
  • Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto — Courtney Love
  • The purpose of The Motherhood Manifesto is: mothers really need to be given the ability to parent. — Joan Blades

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The Communist Manifesto Quotes

Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell . — Thomas Sowell

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. — Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto was correct but we see the privileges of the capitalist bourgeoisie yielding to democratic organizations. In my judgment success lies in a steady [peaceful] advance [rather] than in a catastrophic crash. — Eduard Bernstein

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other. — 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

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. — Karl Marx

The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. — Max Weber

...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. — Karl Marx

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. — Karl Marx

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

Communist Manifesto Quotes

In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. — Karl Marx

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

Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production — Karl Marx

The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. — Friedrich Engels

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. — Karl Marx

Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones. — Karl Marx

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization. — Karl Marx

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. — Karl Marx

When you mention the word ideology, everyone has communism in the back of their minds, which was an entirely well formulated ideology and statement of belief. You read the Communist Manifesto and you know what the core of it is. — Samuel P. Huntington

Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. — Karl Marx

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More Manifesto Quotes

Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. — Sarah Vowell

I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation. — James Hilton

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way." - Tristan Tzara "Dada Manifesto 1918 — Tristan Tzara

It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist. — Albert Camus

It is from Italy that we launch through the world this violently upsetting incendiary manifesto of ours. With it, today, we establish Futurism, because we want to free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors, archaeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians. — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed. — David Daiches

And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. — Mangosuthu Buthelezi

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself. — Oscar Wilde

The New Health Rules is the new manifesto for how to eat well, feel good, and live long. If you ever wondered what's really true about the things that work and the things that don't, look no further. — Mark Hyman, M.D.

These elections won't be about the manifesto of parties, but about manifesto of the people and their dreams who want peace and prosperity. — Narendra Modi

In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again! — Leonard Cohen

In the first manifesto that we launched on the 8th of March, 1910, from the stage of the Chiarella Theater in Turin,1 we expressed our deep-rooted disgust with, our proud contempt for, and our happy rebellion against vulgarity, mediocrity, the fanatical and snobbish worship of all that is old, attitudes which are suffocating Art in our Country. — Umberto Boccioni

I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game. — Charles W. Penrose

If literature or music can make you think or become aware, then it's done something. That's what we've always wanted to do, just ignite sparks in people's minds. We can't offer a manifesto of how to make your life better. — Nicky Wire

Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work? — Cynthia Payne

Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope, And God Save--as you prefer--the King or Ireland. The land of scholars and saints: Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush, Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints — Louis Macneice

Not everyone voted for me, but the fact that we have so far approximately 32 seats in the 50 seat parliament demonstrates the enthusiasm and the faith and the trust the Fijian people have had for both the track record of my government and FijiFirst manifesto. — Frank Bainimarama

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