MCQ Test Quotes Flashcards
“Every state is founded on force.”
Trotsky
“Today, however, we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.”
Weber
“[Virginia has been taken from the Indians not by conquest but rather] by purchases made in the most unexceptionable form. It is true that these purchases were sometimes made with the price in one hand and the sword in the other.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.”
Marx and Engels
The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”
Marx and Engels
“Religious suffering is at one and the same time the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”
Marx
“To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of a pin-maker [etc.].”
Smith
. “He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. [etc.].”
Smith
“That the Division of Labour is Limited by the Extent of the Market.”
Smith
“And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England’s mountains green
And was the holy Lamb of God,
On England’s pleasant pastures seen! [etc.]”
Blake
“ nor aught avail’d him now
To have built in Heav’n high Towrs; nor did he scape
By all his Engins, but was headlong sent
With his industrious crew to build in hell.
Meanwhile the winged Haralds by command
Of Sovran power, with awful Ceremony
And Trumpets sound throughout the Host proclaim
A solemn Councel forthwith to be held
At Pandæmonium, the high Capital
Of Satan and his Peers. …”
Milton
