Lord Byron Quotes

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another.... Remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

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

Labor is, on the one hand, more and more furnished by a class; Property or Capital, on the other, held and controlled by another class. Here you have workers without property—the proletariat. There you have property without work—or capital…. The workers without property are excluded from their products, from the riches they create—which accumulate in the hands of the property holders, capitalists and large land-owners.

Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

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.

There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

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

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

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

Anyone here own 4 suits? Three suits? Even 2 suits? Well J. P. Morgan has over 100 suits, each one stolen off the back of a working man.

The worker is always in the sun while the landowner is always in the shade.