Shelby Foote Quotes

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Why don't presidents fight the war? - Why do they always send the poor?

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who fight and die.

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

Class war is not the cause of social progress; it is a disease developed in the course of social progress. The cause of the disease is the inability to subsist, and the result of the disease is war.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

There is one rule that works in every calamity. Be it pestilence, war, or famine, the rich get richer and poor get poorer. The poor even help arrange it.

In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

The way corporate media likes to portray America is as a homogenous whole that high-five's each other at the Super Bowl. But what we have is a grotesque disparity between the rich and poor that is only getting wider.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!