Browsing Quotes With Tag: class (7)
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whenever there are some people calling for the elimination of the class that lives by collecting interest, there will be others to object that this will destroy the livelihood of widows and pensioners.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.
Speaker: Ursula K. Le GuinSource: The DispossessedPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Debt peonage, it would appear, is far more likely to inspire outrage and collective action than is a system premised on pure inequality.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:24 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Through most of history, when overt political conflict between classes did appear, it took the form of pleas for debt cancellation, the freeing of those in bondage, and usually a more just reallocation of the land.
Speaker: David GraeberSource: Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPosted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As long as there is a lower class, I’m in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it. As long as there’s a soul in prison, I am not free.
Speaker: Eugene DebsSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Speaker: Franklin D. RooseveltPosted: 16 Sep 2009 at 8:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Speaker: Wendell WilkiePosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!