Daniel Humm Quotes

A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

Poor men's words have little weight.

Surely there is something unlovely, to modern as against medieval minds, about marked inequality of either kind income or power.

The class struggle, to which Marx has specially drawn attention, is a real factor, the tokens of which are to be found on every page of history. But the struggle is not confined only to two classes: the proletariat and the capitalist; it occurs between an infinite number of groups with different interests, and above all between the elites contending for power. The existence of these groups may vary in duration, they may be based on permanent or more or less temporary characteristics. In the most savage peoples, and perhaps in all, sex determines two of these groups.

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

Our nation’s political spectrum is not left to right, but top to bottom. People can locate themselves on this rich-to-poor pole for this is not a theoretical positioning: It’s based on our actual experience with money and power.

I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them.

There are two Baltimores. There are clearly two Baltimores.

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 bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

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.

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

Prostitutes for pleasure, concubines for service, wives for breeding.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.

People say law but they mean wealth.

What the poor did to the poor was the business of the poor, not the business of the proper people who ran the city.

We have been taught by experience the danger of the levelling spirit.

Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for suppressing another.

Whatever is the strongest power in society will obtain the governing authority; and a change in the political constitution cannot be durable unless preceded or accompanied by an altered distribution of power in society itself

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

Just experience tells in every soil That those who think must govern those that toil

The rich will buy up whole townships at a time and bring us into lordships

The First Law of Class Warfare: Once inequalities develop, the upper classes can, with relative ease, drastically reduce the probability of success for any equalizing challenges to the system.