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Eugene Debs Quotes

«While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free»
Author: Eugene Debs (Labor Organizer) | About: Freedom | Keywords: criminal, element, lower
«When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.»
«Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.»
«I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.»
«Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands»
«Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.»
«The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.»
«When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. we will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.»
«Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.»
«The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.»