Walt Kelly Quotes

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

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

What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.

Our party is divided into those who sit and those who are sat upon.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

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

When humans invented inequality and socioeconomic status, they came up with a dominance hierarchy that subordinates like nothing the primate world has ever seen before.

No one really believes in equality who's on top.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. (Tammananny Tiger)

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

I try to not be or associate with elitists.

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.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

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