Sophie Winkleman Quotes

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

One of the striking features of the early episodes of AMC's hit television show 'Mad Men' is the similarities in the lifestyle enjoyed by the lowest paid members of Don Draper's advertising company and its wealthy partners.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

We are undemocratic, then, in our religion, as is proved by our efforts to “raise” the poor.

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

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.

We're leaving the House to people who either were born with a silver spoon in their mouth... or couldn't get better jobs in the first place.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Rich folks always talk hard times.

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

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

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

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The rich - they just live in another realm, really.