Philistines Quotes

• With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in "giving a hiding" to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Dictatorship
  • Proletariat
  • Philistines

• A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Country
  • Philistines
  • Backwoods

• Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Vulgarity
  • Exhilarating
  • Philistines

• Those Eggheadsareterrible Philistines. A realgood head is not oval but round.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Rounds
  • Philistines
  • Oval