Julia Hare Quotes

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

The poor developed an envy and an extreme jealousy, born of the realization that they are as worthy, or even more worthy than the wealthy, and are nonetheless afflicted with poverty, hunger, misery, and contempt.

Class still matters in Britain today.

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.

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

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

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

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.

Class warfare is being waged in America, and the wrong side is winning.

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

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

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

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.

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

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

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.

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