1.
The unity of the bourgeoisie can be shaken only by the unity of the proletariat.
Karl Marx
The solidarity of the working class can be disrupted only by the cohesion of the capitalist class.
2.
You're gonna have to keep on saying that - I am the proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pig. You've got to make a distinction.
Fred Hampton
3.
Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
Gene Kelly
4.
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.
Ernest Bevin
6.
Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.
George Bernard Shaw
7.
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
Vladimir Lenin
8.
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.
Bela Kun
9.
Having consolidated its power, and taking the lead of the peasantry, the proletariat of the victorious country can and must build a socialist society.
Joseph Stalin
10.
A 'Dictatorship of the Proletariat' becomes again another dictator.
Dorothy Day
11.
The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
Friedrich Engels
12.
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
Fritz Sauckel
13.
I got caught up in the proletariat the way Marx describes it.
Joseph Brodsky
14.
My anarchism is frankly anarcho-communalism, and it's eco-anarchism as well. And it's not oriented toward the proletariat.
Murray Bookchin
16.
If I can't have the proletariat as my chosen people any longer, at least capitalism remains my Satan.
T. J. Clark
17.
Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.
Leon Trotsky