George Packer Quotes

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

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

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.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

The class war is over.

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

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

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

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

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.

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.

Pat Buchanan ... could give Karl Marx lessons in class warfare.

A populist is someone who sees politics from an economic perspective rather than an ideological perspective. I’m a populist. The only thing that really matters is who is gets screwed and who is doing the screwing.

It's not class warfare to talk about fairness.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

Since Mill, in 1848, wrote his chapter on the future of the working classes, the question of the distribution of wealth has be-come of still greater importance. We cannot look round on the political phenomena of to-day without seeing that this question is at the root of them. We see the perplexity in which men stand, and the divisions springing up in our great political parties, because of the uncertainty of politicians how to grapple with it.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.