Saundra Postel Quotes

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

People don't want to have to justify their privileges; they don't want to have to justify having access to the power and resource that wealth brings. And by not talking about it, they are able to hold onto their power without being questioned, and I think that makes them feel more secure.

People say law but they mean wealth.

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.

In every country, and under every government, particular men may be too rich.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

Rich people march on Washington every day.

Oligarchy is to the advantage of the rich. Democracy to the advantage of the poor.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, no worse, for a people than another.

This contempt for money is a trick developed by the rich to keep the poor without it.

Our rich people are not an ethnic minority. A poor person in Tennessee or Arkansas can say, "I'm not wealthy, but maybe my son or my daughter can grow up to be Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton." That's absolutely not true in countries like Zimbabwe, or Burma, or Indonesia, or Bolivia, where the majority of the people look around and they say, "Everybody who's rich belongs to a different ethnic group.

Wealth is a form of power in our society. With great power comes great responsibility. If you have too much wealth, ipso facto, you have too much power -- therefore you have too much responsibility -- and you're a kind of dictator.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

'Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Let some people get rich first.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

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 issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.