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49,699. The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.
WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! (Marxism & Communism & Labour & Work & Working Class & Chains & Unity & Solidarity & Trade Union & Revolution) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
4,568. Man was born free, and everywhere he is in chains. (Man & Freedom & Chains & France) Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
5,465. It is often better [variation: safer] to be in chains than to be free. (Freedom & Chain) Franz Kafka, The Trial
48,081. Chains made in the Black Country were renowned for their quality all over the world. At the end of the nineteenth century 90% of all the chain workshops in England and Wales were here in the black country. (Steam & Engine & Chain) Fred Dibnah’s Made in Britain: Engines at Work
48,082. Our engine is actually steered by chains. We’ve come here to the Black Country Museum to see a gentleman making chains in exactly the same way as this chain would have been made in 1912, without any fancy electric welding or anything like that. (Steam & Engine & Chain) Fred Dibnah’s Made in Britain: Chains and Copper
30,174. There was still a huge gulf between rich and poor. In 1910 the chain makers of the black country went on strike ... The most exploited were the women. (Great Britain & England & Strike & Industrial Action & Chains) Michael Wood, The Great British Story: A People’s History 8/8
65,693. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. (Broken & Chains & Worry) Ovid