Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

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

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

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

… 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

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.

Most of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and have nots.

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

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.

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.

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

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

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

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

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

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.

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

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

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

What the poor did to the poor was the business of the poor, not the business of the proper people who ran the city.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

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.

An elite has prospered with our kinds of institutions, but the same cannot be said of the masses.