Pilou Asbaek Quotes

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

All the households of the poor are not equally submissive

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

If we were in India now, there would be servants standing in the corners of this room and I wouldn't notice them. That is what my society is like, that is what the divide is like.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

The defeats and victories for the people at the top aren't defeats and victories for the people at the bottom.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

What the poor did to the poor was the business of the poor, not the business of the proper people who ran the city.

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of the half of society over which the other half has power—from the exercises of the right of the strongest.

Poor men's words have little weight.

The lower middle classes as well as the peasants, … always side with the strongest

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life. Men adjust themselves to their land; they create their own laws of being; their notions of right and wrong.

Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends.

I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.