Patrice Motsepe Quotes

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

Inequality [is] a social control mechanism supported by financial interests’ belief in the desirability of oligarchy.

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.

We live in a world where corporates are trying to prove that water is a commodity. The economics of this world is inclined towards creating a divide between rich and poor, and religion is the most convenient tool.

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

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.

You need just the right amount of protection for the rich under democracy: too little and the elite will not agree to democracy; too much and the poor will go ahead and have the revolution...

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

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 most dreaded of all wars, the war of the poor against the rich … will come and come with all its horrors.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

Economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

That system, unequal as it is indefensible, is the mightiest engine of oppression imposed upon an honest yeomanry since the feudal ages. This system places a high premium on wealth and a severe penalty on poverty.