Eugene V. Debs Quotes

The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

Eugene V. Debs

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• There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Church
  • Social
  • Ethical

• I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Know
  • I Can

• I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like

• Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Great
  • Home

• I have American in-laws, and I care about the environment. We don't use disposable diapers, which, of course, creates an environmental problem of our own.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • American
  • Environment
  • Environmental

• I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Up
  • Pressure
  • Stand

• Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Up
  • Work
  • Language

• The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • South
  • Backbone

• Polka dots are fabulous.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Fabulous
  • Dots

• I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Done
  • American
  • America

• The stammerer is ambivalent about communicating with others-he desperately wants to communicate, but is afraid of revealing himself.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • Wants
  • Communicating
  • Revealing

• I was absolutely never going to get pregnant. I never felt that it was the right thing to do. Now I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. It taught me a lot about life, just the process of it, and now we have three other beautiful children that wouldn't otherwise be here.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • World
  • Children

• I cannot say something different to one person and then another.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Different
  • Persons

• People are already talking about the next presidential election. There's stories all over about who might run. At a recent speech, a prominent Democrat said that Hillary Clinton should not run because she can't win. Immediately after the speech, Hillary told her husband to shut up.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Economic

• I said to myself, 'the champion of the whole world can whoop every man in Russia, every man in America, every man in China, every man in Japan, every man in Europe - every man in the whole world'.It sounds big, didn't it? So I kept working until I did it.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Working
  • Champion

• “We never cared about what people expected. I always imagined if one day we would go onstage again, people would think: ‘No, this isn’t Can. This is another group – we are in the wrong place.

  

  Irmin Schmidt Can
  • Place
  • Group
  • Expected

• The economic owning class is always the political ruling class.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Economic
  • Ruling Class