Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

There are no limits to which powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery.

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

The division of society into the producing and non-producing classes ... capital and labor.... Antagonism and opposition of interest is introduced in the community; capital and labor stand opposed.

This trial is a fight between capital and labor, of which this is but a manifestation up here in the woods.

If work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

He who labors with his mind rules over he who labors with his hand

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

There is and always has been in an advanced stage of wealth and civilization, a conflict between labor and capital.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically been the hard assets that they owned and controlled.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.

Class division in knowledge goes deeper than any other class division.

I was anxious to save the great coal operators and all of the class of big propertied men, of which they were members, from the dreadful punishment which their own folly would have brought on them if I had not acted.

In Russia bureaucracy as the ruling class is master of production and produce, and the Russian workers are an exploited class.

It is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

Juridically they are equal; but economically the worker is the serf of the capitalist … The worker always has the right to leave his employer, but has he the means to do so? No, he does it in order to sell himself to another employer. He is driven to it by the same hunger which forces him to sell himself to the first employer.

No country can exist without a ruling class. The governing class in a America is a rank that is for sale.

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

The division of society into estates or castes means in effect that conceptually and organizationally these ‘natural’ forms are established without their economic basis ever becoming conscious

The lower middle classes as well as the peasants, … always side with the strongest