Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

Matters goeth not well to pass in England, nor shall not do till everything be in common … that there be no greater masters than we be.

We have been taught by experience the danger of the levelling spirit.

Our goal is a classless society.

When people are educated, class distinction disappears.

I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally different, to believe that all people can be equal - that is not a new idea.

It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

I wanted everyone to be equal. I wanted everyone to be rich. Nobody would oppress anybody. Nobody would look down on anybody. No capitalism. No oppression.

Education ... is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.

To abolish class distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself.

They do not even believe in God any more and … want to turn everything upside down in the apparent beautiful name of freedom and equality.

Here, no privileged orders – no factitious distinctions in society – no hereditary nobility – no royal prerogatives exist, to interpose barriers between the people, and to create distinct classifications in society. All men being considered as enjoying an equality of rights, the propriety and necessity of dispensing, without distinction, the blessings of education ….

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

There should be no differentiation amongst the people. All should be treated as equals. On this basis the Brahmin must give up his false prestige. In the interest of the society. I say that the blind beliefs should be given up

What enchants me the most here is that all citizens are brothers. In America there are no poor, not even what one might call peasants.

The United States was founded on a revolution that abolished the monarchy, aristocracy, titles and primogeniture. Britain may be able in the future to become a more equal and open society while retaining all of these things. But this has yet to be proved.

We live in a time where it's very much in vogue, constant search for pure utopian equality, and which, on one level, is quite amusingly silly but also on another probably very important.

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.

There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.