Robert Bork Quotes

I can be influenced by what seems to me to be justice and good sense; but the class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

The class struggle, to which Marx has specially drawn attention, is a real factor, the tokens of which are to be found on every page of history. But the struggle is not confined only to two classes: the proletariat and the capitalist; it occurs between an infinite number of groups with different interests, and above all between the elites contending for power. The existence of these groups may vary in duration, they may be based on permanent or more or less temporary characteristics. In the most savage peoples, and perhaps in all, sex determines two of these groups.

The First Law of Class Warfare: Once inequalities develop, the upper classes can, with relative ease, drastically reduce the probability of success for any equalizing challenges to the system.

The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.

If the upper classes, through their political representatives, pass legislation that diminishes the income of the middle class and reduces services to the poor and further enrich the affluent, this is not class warfare. But if the middle class and the poor, and their representatives, complain that this is unfair, that is class warfare. So say some of our politicians who oppose class warfare.

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.

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

And understand: class differences will not save you.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

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.

Every society naturally divides itself into classes. The author of nature has bestowed on some greater capacities than on others--birth, education, talents and wealth, create distinctions among men as visible and of as much influence as titles, stars and garters. In every society, men of this class will command a superior degree of respect--and if the government is so constituted as to admit but few to exercise the powers of it, it will, according to the natural course of things, be in their hands.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

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

Class division in knowledge goes deeper than any other class division.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

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.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

People say law but they mean wealth.