Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

You need just the right amount of protection for the rich under democracy: too little and the elite will not agree to democracy; too much and the poor will go ahead and have the revolution...

Wherever democracy has prevailed, the power of the State has been used in some form or other to plunder the well-to-do classes for the benefit of the poor.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Subordinate classes have usually pushed for democracy, dominant classes nearly always have resisted it.

Revolutions break out when opposite parties, the rich and the poor, are equally balanced, and there is little or nothing between them.

It is assumed that the daughters of the poor are for the use of the rich. They assume that we’re their property.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

All the rivalries of nations have been reduced to this one - a degraded struggle for their share of the spoils of barbarous countries to be used at home for the purpose of increasing the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

I have a great fear of the atrociousness of proletarian rule.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can rule alone, disenfranchising or even enslaving the poor, or the poor can rise up and confiscate the wealth of the rich.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

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.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.