Paul Harvey Quotes

Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.

The elite interests must not crowd out the interests of the citizens.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

The masses are absolutely being manipulated by those in power.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

The elites benefit from affirmative action programs even when those programs are designed to help the masses.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

Global elites need to recognize that the masses that they spit on, as they try to change their worlds, are immune to their consultations

Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating the vulnerable and creating for them a false sense of identification—denying real class differences wherever possible.

I think that the elites have lived too long among themselves.

It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.

A lot of people think that intersectionality is only about identity. But it's also about how race and gender are structured in particular workforces.

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.

It's the Met Gala - everyone is huge. It feels very hierarchical, and I get really nervous in hierarchical spaces because I feel like everyone deserves to feel just as special as everyone else, but that's just not the way it is in this business.

The paternalism of the Conservative party is breathtaking.

As a black woman, the government is so much in my life, and it always has been.

There's this idea of America that some people have to win and some have to lose, so certain things are in place to make this happen. Some people have to be the next legislators and political elites, and some have to fill the prisons and work in McDonald's. That's how America works. It's a machine which needs people up top and people down low.

Politics also reflects the fault lines in our society, and the fact is that it is not very easy for any marginalised group to come forward in any domain.