Marilyn Ferguson Quotes

It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.

The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.

Some members of the ruling class are making a concerted effort to expand the wealth gap.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The state is no more than a machine for oppression of one class by another. This is as true of democracy as it is of monarchy.

It is property which has made tyrants and not tyrants property.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

One must denounce the economic, financial, and social mechanisms and structures that are manipulated by the rich and powerful for their own benefit at the expense of the poor

The First Law of Class Warfare: Once inequalities develop, the upper classes can, with relative ease, drastically reduce the probability of success for any equalizing challenges to the system.

The South politician preaches to the poor white man, "You got more than the blacks, don't complain. You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain. And the Negro's name Is used, it is plain, For the politician's gain, As he rises to fame And the poor white remains On the caboose of the train; But it ain't him to blame -- He's only a pawn in their game.

The obtuseness and cowardice of people of property and influence and the stupidity of most [military] officers, frustrated all efforts.

The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence.

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.