Of 15,000 proletaries slain in a battle, scarce fifteen are recorded in history, or one alone, the General perhaps, and after a while his and their names are likewise blotted out, the whole battle itself is forgotten. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In opposition to this very insignificant Faubourg St. Germain was a group of a dozen rich families, those of retired millers, or former merchants; in short a miniature bourgeoisie; below which, again, lived and moved the retail shopkeepers, the proletaries and the peasantry. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The chapter on the "proletaries of intellectual labor," gives any thing but a flattering account of the literary classes on the continent. ❋ Various (N/A)
Especially good are its pictures of the different classes in Germany, such as the nobility, the peasantry, the industrious middle class, and the proletaries. ❋ Various (N/A)
He makes no distinction between the proletaries who live by the soil, and those who live by working in connection with manufactures and mechanical trades. ❋ Various (N/A)
Herodotus phrases it, and commenced that alliance with the proletaries of the North which has proved so profitable to Southern leaders. ❋ Various (N/A)
The coxcomb and bully and thief class are allowed as proletaries, every one of their vices being the excess or acridity of a virtue. ❋ Unknown (1856)
Gaudissart, grandson of all the Gaudissarts, vile proletaries of ancient birth, his forefathers. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
The bulk of the laws and their spirit should tend to enlighten the people as much as possible — the people that had nothing — workmen, proletaries, etc. — so as to bring the greatest number of men to that condition of well-being which distinguished the intermediary mass; but the people should be left under the most puissant yoke, in such a way that the individual units might find light, aid, and protection, and that no idea, no form, no transaction might render them turbulent. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The bulk of the laws and their spirit should tend to enlighten the people as much as possible -- the people that had nothing -- workmen, proletaries, etc. -- so as to bring the greatest number of men to that condition of well-being which distinguished the intermediary mass; but the people should be left under the most puissant yoke, in such a way that the individual units might find light, aid, and protection, and that no idea, no form, no transaction might render them turbulent. ❋ Frederick Lawton (N/A)
Solemnly we promise you that neither the noise of drums nor the thunder of cannon, neither victory nor defeat, shall turn us aside from our work for the union of the proletaries of all countries. " ❋ Charles Sumner (1842)
