Manifestos Quotes

• 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

  Fall, Victory, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.837, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Energy, Want, Habit

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, “Futuristic Manifesto”

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• Everything that becomes true starts with a manifesto

  Courtney Love

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• The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Self, Hands

  Karl Marx, Lawrence H. Simon (1994). “Marx: Selected Writings”, p.161, Hackett Publishing

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• A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

  Karl Marx

  Party, Europe, Police

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Class, Two, Bourgeoisie

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.40, Haymarket Books

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• 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

  Dream, Party, People

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• Manifesto. Read my Manifesto. I`ve written a Manifesto. It`s all in the Manifesto!

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Written

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• 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

  Baby, Time, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Wilde Complete Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest; A Woman of No Importance; Salome; The Duchess of Padua; Vera, or the Nihilists; A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane”, p.557, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Cancer, Burning, World

  "The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism" by F. T. Marinetti. Le Figaro, www.italianfuturism.org. February 20, 1909.

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• Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country, and that's the American people.

  John Boehner

  Country, People

  "For The Right, A Declaration Of Ideals". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 20, 2010.

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• In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called "Objections to Astrology" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian.

  Carl Sagan

  Astrology, Atheism, Together

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.388, Ballantine Books

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• A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

  Art Spiegelman

  Suicide, Diaries, Letters

  "Art Spiegelman on 'Breakdowns' Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff, www.vulture.com. October 8, 2008.

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• Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

  Jani Allan

  Design, Style, Petitions

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• Every question that can be answered must beanswered or at least engaged. Illogical thought processes must bechallenged when they arise.Wrong answers must be corrected.Correct answers must be affirmed. —From the Erudite faction manifesto

  Veronica Roth

  Answers, Factions, Process

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

  Cynthia Payne

  People, Election, Said

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• 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

  Writing, Principles, Want

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• There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

  Duke of Wellington

  Cannons

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• I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

  Tony Benn

  Party, Years, Drs

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• 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

  Art, Practice, Rivers

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• I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of 'from each according to his capacity and to each according to his needs'. That's socialism. It's written into the Communist Manifesto. Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.

  T. Coleman Andrews

  Ideas, Return, Income

  U.S. News & World Report, May 25, 1956.

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• The Declaration of Independence to which these great men affixed their signatures is much more than a political document. It constitutes a spiritual manifesto-revel ation, if you will-declaring not for this nation only, but for all nations, the source of man's rights.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spiritual, Men, Rights

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• We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about what we wanted to do. We wanted to find work that was relevant socially and that didn't take audiences for granted.

  Zachary Quinto

  Writing, Granted, Relevant

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

  Guo Moruo

  Literature, Morality, Kind

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• I open each class with an explanation of the singular importance of being a "dealmaker." The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.

  Tim Ferriss

  Simple, Reality, Class

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