The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.

What is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive — and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

He objected on principle to the powerful.

The rich are always afraid.

The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.

The very rich are not good.

It is surely almost self-evident that the strongest political emotions are negative: for example, the rich are hated much more than the poor are loved.

You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists

One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it – and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.

the oppressive government of the rich.

I am against all forms of government, including good government.