Patricia Hill Collins Quotes

Kings need the company of the intelligent far more than the intelligent need the company of kings.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Aristocracy is naturally abhorrent to me, and adored equality is my idol.

Whores don't live in the company of poor men, birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits, and citizens never support a weak administration.

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

The majority in every society is always the backward. The diligent are no more than thirty percent of the society. It is a natural law that the diligent breed will exploit the backward breed as best they can, like the fish at sea, where the strong eat the weak. It is inconsequential whether the diligent are capitalists and merchants, as in the bourgeois government, or whether the diligent are the managers and supervisors, the intellectuals and the allotters as in the communist government. Ultimately, the diligent will exploit the laboring backward to the best of their ability.

Powerful people maneuver for position and worry endlessly about who is in and who is out, who is up and who is down, forgetting those people whose toil and sweat sends us here and pays our way.

Every organism, every human being, must conquer or serve.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and powerful, and to despise or, at least, neglect persons of poor and mean conditions, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

Only powerful people have liberty.

You know our nation. If a citizen officer of one town has just one more silver button on his epaulette than another, great hue and cry arises and the important cause goes by the board …