Adversity Quote by Thomas Malthus

The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce…

— Louis Althusser

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they…

— Jarvis Cocker

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent…

— Oscar Wilde

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

— Mao Zedong

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

— Robert Kiyosaki

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

— Arthur Young

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and…

— John Ruskin

“A “class analysis” does not necessarily begin and end with Marx’s nineteenth-century version, a version I regard as grossly inaccurate. The class struggle, moreover,…

— Murray Bookchin

Prosperity often presages adversity.

— Hosea Ballou

“Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating the vulnerable and…

— Nancy Isenberg

Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class…

— Anonymous

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick