Maurice John Cowling Quotes

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The struggle for power in our day lies not between Crown and people, or between a caste of nobles and a bourgeoisie, but between the classes who have property and the classes who have none.

A dangerous chasm in the classes is alive and well in the United States of America. Don’t let anybody tell you it’s not.

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 mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

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.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.

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

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

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

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

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

My job is to raise issues relating to class in Ireland.

An issue between a people and a class