Piyush Goyal Quotes

The extremes of society are being driven further and further apart.

Our greatest political disease -- the disease of thinking that the community is divided into the relatively rich and the relatively idle, and the laborious poor, and that every social and political controversy can be resolved into the question: What side are you on?

It would be a dreadful calamity to see the nation divided into two parties, one containing the bulk of the property owners and conservative people, the other the bulk of the wageworkers and the less prosperous people generally; each party insisting on demanding much that is wrong, and each party sullen and angered by real and fancied grievances..

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Man has set man against man, Washed against unwashed.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

An issue between a people and a class

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

It bothers me when I look at Israeli society, on the divisiveness in it, and to polarization. I'm not just talking about left-right... but how individuals behave towards each other.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

Society is better off without certain people.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

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

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Men are separated by so many petty things.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones or inhabitants of different planets ... the rich and the poor.