Bruce Robinson Quotes

The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

[Capitalism is] a special machine for the suppression of one class by another.

In the United States you have socialism for the rich and free markets for the poor.

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

... the problem isn't that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France, before the revolution. And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won't last.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly winning.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

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

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The First Law of Class Warfare: Once inequalities develop, the upper classes can, with relative ease, drastically reduce the probability of success for any equalizing challenges to the system.

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division, and from the antagonism between poor and rich, means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.