Quotes About Class Warfare

#1. Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence.

Karl Marx

#2. In the Conservative Party we have no truck with outmoded Marxist doctrine about class warfare. For us it is not who you are, who your family is or where you come from that matters, but what you are and what you can do for your country that counts.

Margaret Thatcher

#3. While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

Michelle Malkin

#4. Obama is ratcheting up his class warfare to levels that would make Marxists blush.

David Limbaugh

#5. This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.

James Carville

#6. I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

Bernard Goldberg

#7. The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Calvin Trillin

#8. Obama's plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats' class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

Steve Stockman

#9. Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform.

Barack Obama

#10. In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.

Niall Ferguson

#11. It's class warfare; my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.

Warren Buffett

#12. The problem: Democrats have to drop their stupid class-warfare rhetoric. With 74 million Americans owning stock in one form or another, anything which helps them can't be derided as a sop to the rich.

Dick Morris

#13. When a leader used his power over the ruled for the purpose of settling scores and inflating his self-esteem, for remaking society according to his own grand designs, class warfare and genocide ensued.

Dean Koontz

#14. I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.

Elizabeth Warren

#15. The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

Dick Morris

#16. This is not class warfare
it's math.

Barack Obama

#17. We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

Norm Coleman

#18. When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism.

Cory Booker

#19. Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Constance Baker Motley

#20. You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.

Timothy Noah

#21. If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

Lewis Black

#22. My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

Rick Perry

#23. More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Walter E. Williams

#24. Every time a congressman or pundit says its 'class warfare' to increase taxes on the wealthy, it's a massive lie.

Adam McKay

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

Warren Buffett

#26. For the past five thousand years, people have been largely enslaved by a few select masters who understood how violence, religion, communication, debt, and class warfare all work together to subjugate a large group of people.

James Altucher

#27. Class warfare is an artificial division created for political advantage, and it should be rejected outright

Ben Carson

#28. Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.

Rachel Kushner

#29. Barack Obama's class warfare will not work on this Republican nominee. Not in Utah.

Mia Love

#30. First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure.

Jon Lovitz

#31. Democrats single out glaring examples of tax preferences or spending priorities that favor the wealthy and Republicans cry 'class warfare!'

Dee Dee Myers

#32. Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

Jonathan Alter

#33. Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

Paul Ryan

#34. Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else?

Cal Thomas

#35. Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds, but it does nothing to solve the grave realities of the federal government's insatiable appetite for spending and its inability to reform itself.

Mark R. Levin

#36. To hell with the rich, they make me sick.

Raymond Chandler

#37. At one time he [Cornelius Vanderbilt] personally controlled some 10 percent of all the money in circulation in the United States.

Bill Bryson

#38. The problem is just too big to solve. This life is much easier if we all just pretend to have a heart.

E.P. Shelky

#39. Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Charles Dickens

#40. Admit that there is some level that would make even you call yourself the victim of class war.

David Brin

#41. People naturally despise a dependant.

William Dean Howells

#42. subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all.

Allan G. Johnson

#43. Our society buries most of those that contribute above their station. It disbelieves them, labelling them whatever nickname will soil their reputation the most at the time. That's the standard protocol for political and economic warfare.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#44. 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

#45. What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead from the spirit of the last Delphic prophecy, which foresaw that, 'One day Apollo will return and it will be forever'.

Guillaume Faye

#46. It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

Jon Stewart

#47. Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

Gary Hopkins

#48. The host thus forming a single united body, is it impossible either for the brave to advance alone, or for the cowardly to retreat alone

Sun Tzu

#49. 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

#50. Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

B.R. Ambedkar

#51. If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

Terry Pratchett

#52. 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

#53. Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare from becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

Terry Pratchett

#54. 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

#55. The lords themselves are responsible for making the poor people their enemy. They do not want to remove the cause of insurrection, so how, in the long run, can things improve?

Thomas Muntzer

#56. I have gas mask in my office because I took Chem/bio warfare training class so I can report in case of an attack. It's on a copy of my head made by Madame Tussauds

Anderson Cooper

#57. Populism and elitism are the same thing. They are class prejudices, crude class prejudices that so-and-so, because they are uneducated, is less worthy, or so-and-so, because they are richer or more educated, is unworthy.

David Brooks

#58. We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that love is possible, that the world is not condemned to a struggle between oppressors and oppressed, that class and racial warfare is not inevitable.

Jean Vanier