Johann Most: Quotes about people

Johann Most was German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and orator. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Johann Most: 34 quotes0 likes

“Let us show the people how it is swindled out of its labor force by country and city capitalists; how it is euchered out of its meagre wages by the house, store, and other lords; how priests of pulpit, press, and party seek to destroy its intellect; how a brutal police is ever ready to maltreat and tyrannize it, and with a soldiery to spill its blood. Patience, at last must forsake it! The people will rebel and crush its foes.”

The Beast of Property (1884)

“Whoever has recognized the villainy of the present conditions, is in duty bound to raise his voice, in order to expose them, and thereby open the eyes of the people.”

The Beast of Property (1884)

“Education of the people will only then be possible, when the obstructions thereto have been removed. And that will not take place until the entire present system has been destroyed.”

The Beast of Property (1884)

“The State … is evidently nothing more nor less than the political organization of a horde of swindlers and spoliators, who without the tyrannizing machinery could not exist for one day before the just wrath and condemnation of the oppressed and plundered people.”

The Beast of Property (1884)