Bill Kristol Quotes

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

The conservatives say they are protecting the values of society. They are protecting their privileges.

... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Senators will associate only with men of their own class; and thus become strangers to the condition of the common people.

All communities divide ... into the few and the many. The 1st are the rich and well-born; the other are the mass of the people [who are] ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give, therefore to the 1st class a distinct, permanent share in the government.

This is the core claim of populism. Only some of the people are really the people.

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people. The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the government.

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

Lawyers belong to the people by birth and interest, and to the aristocracy by habit and taste; they may be looked upon as the connecting link of the two great classes of society.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class.

I have so much respect for the Queen and for Charles, and what the family represents. And yet there's still a conflict about whether we can abolish the class system while also having a Royal family.

Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don't.

The personality cult of the ego does not work down a coal mine and it does not work in the Labour party.

What's wrong with politics in the celebrity billionaire analysis is politicians. Populism is not so much a cry for economic equality, or even a disdain for elites, but a mass revulsion against the inauthenticity of politicians. Celebrities are real celebrities, politicians are fake ones.

Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.