Will Rogers Quotes

'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

The rich are different than you and me: they have more money and they have more power.

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

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

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

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

All shall equal be. The Earl, the Marquis, and the Dook, The Groom, the Butler, and the Cook, The Aristocrat who banks with Coutts, The Aristocrat who cleans the boots.

Let Socialists make the laws today and they would break them tomorrow. No sooner do the poor become rich than they harden their hearts to the miseries of the poor. In so far as it proposes to correct the evils of unequal fortune, Socialism aims to repeal the laws of nature.

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.

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

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Surely there is something unlovely, to modern as against medieval minds, about marked inequality of either kind income or power.

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

Our nation’s political spectrum is not left to right, but top to bottom. People can locate themselves on this rich-to-poor pole for this is not a theoretical positioning: It’s based on our actual experience with money and power.

You go to Europe, and they have their very wealthy elites, and then everybody else is, you know, a couple of steps above a peasant, basically.

One thing that is clearly not maximized by free markets is equality. I am talking not about that pale substitute for equality known as equality of opportunity but about equality itself.

There aren't any poor cable hosts.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?

You have to be very poor and desperate, or very rich, or lucky, to live in Islington. We don't have the people in the middle, the people who serve the community.