Bill Clinton Quotes

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

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.'

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.

What are your masses [of humanity] but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

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.

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

… in the old days there were one thousand castes and destinies in India. These days, there are just two castes: Men with Big Bellies and Men with Small Bellies. And only two destinies: eat – or get eaten up

The fight is over two fundamentally different ideas about the nature of America. On one side are those who believe that that every hardworking person should be able to rise. On the other are those who believe that wealthy white men should always rule over a permanent class of workers.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

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

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

Class still matters in Britain today.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.