Characteristics Quote by Mikhail Bakunin

The privileged man, whether he be privileged politically or economically, is a man depraved in intellect and heart.

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material…

— Emile Durkheim

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and…

— Henry David Thoreau

But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow…

— Walter E. Williams

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor,…

— Thomas Paine

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

— Thomas Carlyle

“Further, a discerning and discriminating person must realize that a man who possesses knowledge is nobler in every conceivable respect than a man of…

— Franz Rosenthal

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock