Herman Gorter Quotes

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

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 Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

Class still matters in Britain today.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

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.

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

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.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

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

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

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

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

What I quickly discovered is that our so-called new South Africa has as much material for a story-teller as the old one. The landscape hasn't really changed. Who is in power now is different to who was in power then, but the squatter camps grow like cancer, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

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.

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

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.