Feudal System Quotes

• I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Money, Women, Order

  Statement to the Court, delivered 14 [or 18] September 1918, Federal Court of Cleveland, Ohio

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• 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

  Rights, Desire, Relics

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• Can it be believed that the democracy, which has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings, will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Kings, Democracy, Retreat

  "Democracy in America".

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• 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

  Civilization, Leaving, Departed

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• As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism retained the essential usurpations of feudalism, though professing to guard personal freedom, and to observe equity between the owner and the occupier of the land, the employer and the employed.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Land, Practice, Community

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• 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

  Simple, People, Village

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the feudal system and more advanced than anything else in the world, but nothing that we ought to call democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Achievement, Democracy, World

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

  Indira Gandhi

  Struggle, Evil, Colonialism

  Source: sangam.org

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• I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.

  Stanley Donwood

  Fall, Communication, Class

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Play, Roles, Corporations

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• 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

  Country, Princess, Opportunity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . .

  John Adams

  Religious, Time, Real

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