Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

We live in a very unequal society.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

It's not an underclass anymore; it's an outer class.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

An elite has prospered with our kinds of institutions, but the same cannot be said of the masses.

The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

The very idea that there should be a certain class of people who give orders by virtue of their ownership of wealth and another huge class who take on orders and follow them because of their lack of access to wealth and power, that's unacceptable. So, sure it should be abolished.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

The economy is rigged in favor of those at the top.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til we get rid of all the rich can we say we have finished the job.

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.