Frankie Boyle Quotes

At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.

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

The rich in their gilded coaches trample the common citizen into the dust.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

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.

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

It is impossible for one class to appreciate the wrongs of another.

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

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.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

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

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

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

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

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

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

The "have nots" outnumber the "haves." No wonder the ruling class of every country grows more and more alarmed.

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

Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

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

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.