"The Iron Heel" Quotes

The present unequal distribution of wealth gives rise to the same sort of tyranny as does the unequal distribution of beauty among men and women.

The Iron Heel was the expression of the immaturity of the socialist movement. The Iron Heel was any and every despotism, the source of whose power was the inability of the people to organize and administer government.

I could not but feel the brutal and cynical nature of the contest. It was a game, a game to the death. Men died, and the game went on. There was no reason in it. It was the will of the strong. The game went on, and the dead men were cleared away for the next game.

When I shall have become the ruler of the world, then, and then only, will there be the perfect social system.

The rest of the world is ready to pass through the same ordeal. The Iron Heel will be swift to smother any and all rebellions. That is its one reason for existence.

The Iron Heel is a terrible thing, and terrible are the crimes it commits in its lust for power.

To be a traitor is to be a man. It is a privilege of the human being, and, at the same time, the terrible price of manhood.

They failed to realize the simple fact that the support of the labor unions is necessary to the existence of the Oligarchy.

A religion of the body is the first requisite of health and sanity.

They paid the price of the change, and not all of them paid willingly, I imagine.