42 Quotes About Social-class

The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few. Democratic politics, which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything.

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be.

In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior.

All rich things look the same, but poor things always look different.

This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

He was stupid, yes; he had never had any schooling; he didn't know how to explain himself. Was he in jail because he doesn't know how to explain things right? What was wrong with his being stupid? He worked like a slave, day in and day out. [...] Was it his fault he was stupid? Who was to blame?

How much of us is what we do?