Mary Roberts Rinehart Quotes

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

The division of society into estates or castes means in effect that conceptually and organizationally these ‘natural’ forms are established without their economic basis ever becoming conscious

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only upper classes can afford; the working people are hopelessly bound to their native shores.

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

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.