Aspect Quote by James Madison

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect…

— James Madison

As long as almost no new social housing is built, gross inequality will persist, and class structures will grow ever more constraining.

— Dawn Foster

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

— Oscar Wilde

“For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the…

— Karl Marx

In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot…

— Daniel Webster

The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and…

— David Boaz

“Government can only reign over a classes-divided society.”

— Toba Beta

The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer the people become.

— Laozi

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value…

— Henry George

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and…

— Aristotle

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

— Arthur Young