James Carville Quotes

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'

I'm 28 years old. In my country, that's considered very young. It's almost like the youth don't matter to the up-and-ups.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

There are huge divorces and divides and chasms in black America between the have-gots and the have-nots, between the monied and the poor, between the educated and the non-educated. And there are huge and growing chasms daily. And I want to say that it's not simply about generation. It's about genre.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.

Books are for adults; revolution is for the young.

Every 20 years or so, I feel that young people confront the same issues - a new war, new challenges.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

I hadn't found out yet that mankind consists of two very different races, the rich and the poor. It took me ... and plenty of other people . . . twenty years and the war to learn to stick to my class and ask the price of things before touching them, let alone setting my heart on them.

There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.