David Harewood Quotes

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

The elites have become international, and they've ceased to have a primary loyalty to the nation-state.

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

I think America has dealt with - I mean, this is simplistic, and of course I don't live in America - but the impression I get is that there is not a kind of obligation to dislike those who are better off or be frightened of those who are worse off.

Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.

In terms of the class structure that you see so much in European portraiture, I don't think one feels that in America in the 21st century. But we have these other kinds of social structures now, like celebrity, who establish new hierarchies.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

Political battles are won when the rich favor them.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.