D. H. Lawrence Quotes

[Capitalism is] a special machine for the suppression of one class by another.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.

The rich do not want people who come from poor families to rise to the highest position in the country.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Only the elites despise earning money.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

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

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents;... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

He that despises his neighbor's happiness because he wears a worsted cap or a leather apron, he that struts immeasurably above the lower size of the people, and pretends to adjust the rights of the men by the distinctions of fortune

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

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

… egotists, exploiters and aristocrats

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

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.