Keir Hardie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To claim for socialism that it is a class war is to do it an injustice and indefinitely postpone its triumph. Socialism offers a platform broad enough for all to stand upon. It makes war upon a system, not upon a class.
-- Keir Hardie

#War #Class #Triumph
War is the mass murder of workers. When workers refuse to obey the calls of their governments, there will be no more war.
-- Keir Hardie

#War #Government #Murder
Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race.
-- Keir Hardie

#Race #Class #Great Unknown
I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.
-- Keir Hardie

#Peace #Men #Christ

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.
A nation is all the individuals of same blood, forming by their cohesion a natural related collective being with it s own organs and state which are social classes and the State and the same soul, which is nationality.
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.
Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class
A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

Keir Hardie famous quotes

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