“There would be no game of chess if the pawns refused to play”

“There would be no game of chess if the pawns refused to play” is a saying that has been printed on many images. The saying is political, and means that the elites can’t play (operate) if the lower classes all refuse to play.
   
“There would be no game of chess, if the pawns refused to play” was posted on Twitter by sheikhFortunecookie on March 4, 2014. “There would be no game of Chess if the Pawns refused to play…” (shown on an image by “An Uncloudy Day”) was posted on Facebook by Bernard Alvarez on March 6, 2014, and on Facebook by An Uncloudy Day on May 21, 2014. The saying probably originated with this image.
   
       
Twitter
sheikhFortunecookie
@MustafaSheikhJD
There would be no game of chess, if the pawns refused to play
#sheikhFortunecookie
8:09 PM · Mar 4, 2014·Twitter Web Client
   
Facebook
Bernard Alvarez
March 6, 2014 at 7:00 AM ·
Global Illumination Council There would be no game of chess if the pawns refused to play !
Via An Uncloudy Day.
— with Gerald Kertsch and 10 others
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
There would be no game of Chess
if the Pawns refused to play…
(“An Uncloudy Day” is credited with this image.—ed.)
   
Twitter
Jalalapeño
@Jalal_innit
There would be no game of chess if the pawns refused to play !
10:54 AM · Mar 6, 2014·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Illuminated Slave
@LuminatedSlave
There would be no game of chess If the pawns refused to play
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
There would be no game of Chess
if the Pawns refused to play…
(“An Uncloudy Day” is credited with this image.—ed.)
5:08 AM · Mar 7, 2014·Photos on iOS
     
Facebook
An Uncloudy Day
May 21, 2014 at 1:34 PM ·
An Uncloudy Day
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
There would be no game of Chess
if the Pawns refused to play…
(“An Uncloudy Day” is credited with this image.—ed.)
 
Another Angry Voice—A blog by Thomas G. Clark
SATURDAY, 20 AUGUST 2016
There would be no game of chess if the pawns refused to play
It’s worrying how many people are so simple-minded that they actually swallow the right-wing propaganda that people like immigrants and the unemployed are to blame for societies woes, rather than the wealthy establishment class who are actually running the country.
 
Twitter
Ⓥ NAP Paul Ⓐ
@PaulTheMartian
There would be no game of chess if the pawns refused to play
(This is also shown on an image.—ed.)
11:25 AM · Oct 23, 2018·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
conspiracybot
@conspiracyb0t
(The following text is shown on an image.—ed.)
THERE WOULD BE NO GAME
OF CHESS IF THE PAWNS
REFUSED TO PLAY
1:31 PM · Dec 26, 2021·conspiracyb0t
 
Twitter
James
@James103922864
“There would be no game of Chess, if the Pawns refused to play” (unknown)
Very poignant in our current circumstances.
5:51 PM · Dec 26, 2021·Twitter for Android