Quotes About Feudal System

#1. We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal family, princesses and dukes. But social mobility in the UK is higher than in the US. Our social rift is as big as it was in the 1920s.

Robert Reich

#2. The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.

Niger Innis

#3. Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section of society in a single village. You get the microcosm of the social macrocosm.

Michael Haneke

#5. Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!

William Dean Howells

#6. We overthrew the feudal system in the 1600s, and the theocracy in the 1700s. But currently, corporations play similar roles in many of our lives, either directly or indirectly.

John Battelle

#7. The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets.

Friedrich Engels

#8. England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#9. Girl be blowed!" I snapped. "I'm here as a brain, not as a female.

Alan Bradley

#10. He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.

Gary L. Thomas

#11. [Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

Neville Weston

#12. Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Hervey Allen

#13. been ignited by loose talk, by leaks," Amburgey went on, "the fact the city

Patricia Cornwell

#14. Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

Bruce Lee

#15. Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is ... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working ... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

Tony Hale

#16. Just as the power of the feudal aristocracy had to be broken in order for capitalism to emerge fully, so must imperialism and capitalism in Third World nations be overcome if a new system is to prevail.

Michael Parenti

#17. Boxing is going to have to catch up with the kind of things UFC is doing. They're getting left behind.

Conor McGregor

#18. I think my health is probably fine. Let's be honest, you never know what could happen to somebody, but I think I'm in very good shape right now.

Newt Gingrich

#19. Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

Tariq Ali

#20. And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

Robert Dale Owen

#21. They take to the gallows those who speak the truth

Parinoush Saniee

#22. Rosaleen was a nuisance. Her children thought she was a nuisance because it was true. She was. A Nuisance.
Rosalene was a nightmare. She was very difficult. She was incrasingly difficult. She made her children cry.

Anne Enright

#23. We used to say
"Ah Hell, we're young"
But now we see that life is sad
And so is love.

Kate Bush

#24. Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout

Stephan Jenkins

#25. Dare to be vulnerable with me.

Pam Godwin