Tibor Kalman Quotes

I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.

I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.

What is interesting to me about watching a show about the 1% is the world in which the 1% exists, meaning the flaws within the 99% that allow the 1% to exist.

What I see happening to this country is a neo-caste system.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

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

We live in a very unequal society.

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way.

I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper class.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

I'm not the kind of writer who's able to block out the world around me. I'm mindful of our own haves and have-nots, how our culture often blames and punishes the have-nots. I worry about our precarious economic and political climate.

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

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.