William Gibson Quotes

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

The rich don’t need to rely on government … -- they can buy … things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may have once had. They also worry about strong government: one that could use its powers to … take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

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.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

Water does tend to flow up hill toward money and power.

God Almightie in his most holy and wise providence hath soe disposed the Condition of mankind, as in all times some must be rich some poore, some highe and eminent in power and dignitie; others meane and in subjeccion.