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But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.

~ Morley Safer

Morley Safer 1960S Class Warfare Imperialism Politics Racism Vietnam Vietnam War War

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.

~ Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Class Class Warfare Politics Poverty

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

~ Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett Class Struggle Class Warfare Economics Economics Greed Economics Money Inequality Occupy Wall Street Politics Poor Rich The One Percent

We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

~ Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry American Culture Aux Armes Citoyens Class Warfare Liberalism Plutocracy Politics Right Wing Oppression Right Wing Thuggery

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt Administrations Banking Business Class Warfare Elections Finance Government Money Politics Presidency President United States Of America Wealth

When Republicans recently charged the President with promoting 'class warfare,' he answered it was 'just math.' But it's more than math. It's a matter of morality.Republicans have posed the deepest moral question of any society: whether we're all in it together. Their answer is we're not.President Obama should proclaim, loudly and clearly, we are.

~ Robert B. Reich

Robert B. Reich Barack Obama Class Warfare Conservatism Economics Liberalism Mathematics Morality Politics Republican Party United States Society United States

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master. With the worthless parasitical human beings gone, there was more for everyone to eat. There was more leisure too, inexperienced though the animals were.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell Class Warfare Comedy Economic Illiteracy Politics Satire Work Ethic

Physical development was alleged to assist spiritual and intellectual development, while also helping safeguard boys from the 'solitary and sexual sin' of masturbation.

~ Martin Crotty

Martin Crotty Class Warfare Hilarious History Masculinity Morality

In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.

~ Adam Smith

Adam Smith Business Class Warfare Economics Labor Money Profit

How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That’s what things look like in our cities at present

~ Robert Walser

Robert Walser City Class Warfare Courage Cowardice Inequality Money Neighborhoods Oppression Poor Poverty Urban Urbanization Wealth

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

~ Gary Hopkins

Gary Hopkins Class Warfare Elitism Middle Class Money Poor Power Rich Wealthy

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

~ Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass Class Class Struggle Class Warfare Conspiracy Denial Ignorance Inequity Justice Oppression Society Society Denial

Those who are most sensitive about politically incorrect terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any oppressed group but come from privileged strata of society.

~ Theodore J. Kaczynski

Theodore J. Kaczynski Activism Censorship Class Class Warfare Emotions And Attitude Freedom Of Speech Gender Feminism Hypocrisy Hypocrisy In Everyone Immigrant Experience Immigrants Insanity Insanity Is Normal Liberal Hypocrisy Liberalism Oppression Oppressors Patronization Patronizing Political Correct Crap Political Correctness Political Insanity Politically Correct Politics Politics Insanity Politics Of The United States Post Feminism Privilege Sensitivity Shits Fucked Up Yo Society Society Thinking White Privilege

Raging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase the good old days has passed from cliché to self-parody.

~ Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen Class Warfare Clichés Crime Exclusion Immigration Morals Nostaliga Parody Prejudice Self Deception Social Change Social Norms Society Xenophobia

MAMA: You must not dislike people ’cause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people ’cause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Hansberry Class Struggle Class Warfare Judgemental People Poor Poverty Prejuedice Rich Wealth

I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you.

~ Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie Bullies Class Divide Class Warfare Greed Poverty Poverty Wealth Rich Vs Poor Wealth

We have got into the habit of admiring colossal bandits, whose opulence is revered by the entire world, yet whose existence, once we stop to examine it, proves to be one long crime repeated ad infinitum, but those same bandits are heaped with glory, honors, and power, their crimes are hallowed by the law of the land, whereas, as far back in history as the eye can see—and history, as you know is my business—everything conspires to show that a venial theft, especially of inglorious foodstuffs, such as bread crusts, ham, or cheese, unfailingly subjects its perpetrator to irreparable opprobrium, the categoric condemnation of the community, major punishment, automatic dishonor, and inexpiable shame, and this for two reasons, first because the perpetrator of such an offense is usually poor, which in itself connotes basic unworthiness, and secondly because his act implies, as it were, a tacit reproach to the community. A poor man’s theft is seen as a malicious attempt at individual redress . . . Where would we be? Note accordingly that in all countries the penalties for petty theft are extremely severe, not only as a means of defending society, but also as a stern admonition to the unfortunate to know their place, stick to their caste, and behave themselves, joyfully resigned to go on dying of hunger and misery down through the centuries forever and ever …

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline Class Warfare Poverty Theft

The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived under the dome because they considered themselves separate and superior. Few of them left the comfort and security of Atlantis. To them the outside world was weak. Second Sector citizens where miscreant dregs of a defunct society. In order to enter the Atlantian dome one first had to be cleared by a resident. Gate security personnel strictly enforced this rule, even when outsiders carried a badge and gun.

~ Benjamin R. Smith

Benjamin R. Smith Class Warfare Cops Science Fiction

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

~ Jack London

Jack London Class Warfare Culture Education Illusion

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: 'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?' Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.

~ John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck 1960 Bourgeois Class Struggle Class Warfare Communists Frequently Misquoted Hypocrisy Socialism

If an American worker saw you driving a Cadillac, he worked to. earn enough to buy one for himself; the English worker, on the other hand, sought to deprive you of yours.

~ Elizabeth Powers

Elizabeth Powers Class Warfare Envy

I chiefly concern myself with those who seldom get a hearing, & I don't feel it is incumbent on me to balance their voices with the well-crafted apologetics of the powerful. The powerful are generally excellently served by the mainstream media or propaganda organs. The powerful should be quoted, yes, but to measure their pronouncements against the truth, not to obscure it.

~ Joe Sacco

Joe Sacco Class Warfare Journalism Power Truth

8 April 1891The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth.This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

~ Jean Lorrain

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