Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalist to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Karl Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (1847)

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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.

Attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau as being from a “Speech at the commune on the 14th of October”