Sean O'Casey Quotes

On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

The trouble is not that schools don't work; they do. They're excellent machines for achieving historically accepted purposes. In suburban schools are children of the rich, who grow up to privilege and anesthetic oblivion to pain - and who then use the servants produced by ghetto schools.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like you are having an easy time.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

I'm here to speak for those who say the American Dream isn't working for them, because I know it isn't. I'm here to say it's not your fault: the ruling class... has failed you.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

The world belongs to the wealthy, and nowhere is this injustice more apparent than in the workplace.

I do worry about a world in which the rich get to write the rules.

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek.

It's all very well for the Kinks and Damon Albarn to sing those songs and sneer at Mr. Nine to Five, but again, they're white men, so they didn't have it very hard.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.