Arthur Miller Quotes

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

Violation of workers' rights persists, but workers can't turn to the authorities because it is the authorities themselves who commit the violations.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

The Court is corrupt: The fields are overgrown with weeds; the granaries are empty. Yet there are those dressed in fineries, With swords at their sides: Filled with food and drink, Possessed of too much wealth. This is called "Taking the lead in robbery.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

People of great power wield great power, but people of lesser power or people who have fallen out of power go to jail without adequate evidence, or their bodies are found in the trunks of cars.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

"I would be prosecuted and imprisoned if I did what you did." Again, different strokes for the Clintons, look what happened they get a pass, they get to collect all the paychecks and get all the glory, and get the cash while the rest of the people are suffering or dying in Benghazi.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.