24 quotes found
“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
“Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.”
“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”
“Theres class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, thats making war, and were winning.”
“Reform as such is inherently reactionary and perpetuates psychological dependence onthe enemy,while confusingthe true class contradictionsbetween ourselves and the enemy.”
“Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be complet...”
“Right now, we are in a peak cycle. Theres tremendous energy out there, directed against the state. Its not all focused, but its there, and its building. Maybe this will be sufficient to accomplish ...”
“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.”
“You eat the wealthy, sir, and it will be your last meal.”
“Lajwanti made the cardinal mistake of trying to cross the dividing line that separates the existence of the rich from that of the poor. She made the fatal error of dreaming beyond her means. The bi...”
“Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from th...”
“Ive always thought that was the lamest argumentthat we need some people to be poor in order to remind the rest of us to be grateful. All that really means is that someone has to suffer poverty so o...”
“My grandmothers parents had thought she was too good for my grandfather. They were Irish, shipworkers who had gotten the hell out of Locust Point and moved uptown, to Charles Village, where the hou...”
“Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!”
“The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable of orienting themselves equally swiftly, or of reorganizing with t...”
“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, ...”
“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
“There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
“Right now, we are in a peak cycle. There’s tremendous energy out there, directed against the state. It’s not all focused, but it’s there, and it’s building. Maybe this will be sufficient to accompl...”
