Charles Stross Quotes

You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Allow not the abject to rule over and dominate them who are noble and worthy of honour, and suffer not the high-minded to be at the mercy of the contemptible and worthless, for this is what We observed upon Our arrival in the City (Constantinople), and to it We bear witness. We found among its inhabitants some who were possessed of an affluent fortune and lived in the midst of excessive riches, whilst others were in dire want and abject poverty. This ill beseemeth thy sovereignty, and is unworthy of thy rank…. strive thou to rule with equity among men

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

No one has yet been found resolute enough in dogmatizing to deny that Nature made man equal; that society has destroyed this equality is a truth not more incontrovertible.

Not many people appear to advocate—although most a quite prepared to tolerate—a society where some people are worth less than others.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

Resentment — that feeling when the modern promise of equality collides with massive disparities of power, education, status and property ownership.

Today, we seem to be striving towards injustice, applauding it as though it's a worthy dream, made sacred by the caste system.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

There never yet was, and never will be, a nation permanently great, consisting, for the greater part, of wretched and miserable families.

The idea of a world where all people are alike - in wealth or in anything else - is a fantasy for the stupid.

There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price tags seem to lurk around human encounters; there's a cult of overwork in the middle class; workers at your local manicurist, your local fast casual restaurant, are exploited.

I just have this thing about injustice. Everybody hates the big injustices - I know. But I hate even the little injustices, even the way a salesclerk treats somebody who is shabbily dressed and happens to go into a nice store.

We don't need to go back in time and make America great again, because really, America was only great for certain people.

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

God blessed us with all this money, so why not take the money and put it into my brother's case? Talk about social and racial injustice in our country, and mass incarceration in our country?

While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

Having more than one legal system running is not a sign of a healthy or inclusive society. It is just one less thing that people have in common.

In 'A Hijacking,' the characters are low-status people.