Top 37 Zetkin Quotes
#1. In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
Clara Zetkin
#2. Women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.
Clara Zetkin
#3. For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.
Clara Zetkin
#4. When passion dies
friendship hovers round our flesh like flies
Leonard Cohen
#5. When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.
Clara Zetkin
#6. I think in music there is just something inherently spiritual in singing together and harmonizing, and gospel is the truest form of that.
Luke Pritchard
#7. Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.
Clara Zetkin
#8. A cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow sunlight that are bitterly nostalgic for the summer that has gone by.
Stephen King
#9. These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
Clara Zetkin
#10. Theology is the mistress-science, without which the whole educational structure will necessarily lack its final synthesis.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#11. 'To Kill a Mockingbird' represents Hollywood at its very finest, when a popular film could truly contain a message. It has one of the most moving scores of all time.
Mark Mothersbaugh
#12. What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
Calvin Klein
#13. The machines, the modern mode of production, slowly undermined domestic production and not just for thousands but for millions of women the question arose: Where do we now find our livelihood?
Clara Zetkin
#14. Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.
Charles Lindbergh
#15. Women's propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women's class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle.
Clara Zetkin
#16. The charts are only relevant when you're top of them!
Noel Gallagher
#17. We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.
Clara Zetkin
#18. The current age is but a brief moment in the greater scope of existence.
Laurelin Paige
#19. Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
Clara Zetkin
#21. What made women's labour particularly attractive to the capitalists was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of women.
Clara Zetkin
#22. The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual.
It was difficult to come back.
Ian McEwan
#23. The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.
Clara Zetkin
#25. Bourgeois society is not fundamentally opposed to the bourgeois women's movement, which is proven by the fact that in various states reforms of private and public laws concerning women have been initiated.
Clara Zetkin
#26. The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.
Clara Zetkin
#27. Given the fact that many thousands of female workers are active in history, it is vital for the trade unions to incorporate them into their movement.
Clara Zetkin
#28. We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
Clara Zetkin
#29. When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
Clara Zetkin
#30. If something is unbearable, then how do you bear it? It's an oxymoron. And yet I was here, wasn't I? Somehow I was bearing it.
Paula Garner
#31. The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.
Clara Zetkin
#32. What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement.
Clara Zetkin
#34. The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.
Clara Zetkin
#35. Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia.
Clara Zetkin
#36. When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.
Clara Zetkin
#37. All I hope for is one moment of rational thought and a shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness, pithed at the hands of my own stumbling biology.
[Johnny Truant]
Mark Z. Danielewski
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