Peter Kropotkin Quotes

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

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

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

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

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The rich in their gilded coaches trample the common citizen into the dust.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

…of all the causes of seditions and changes in the Republic, there is none greater than the excessive wealth of a few subjects, and the extreme poverty of the majority.

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

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.

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

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.