“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. (p.272)” WealthSocietyCapitalismEconomicsInequalityUtopiaWestern CultureProgressivismMilitary HistoryIncome Disparity Book:Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power Source: Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
“Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.” WorldWealthMediaOrganizationUniversityElitesBureaucracyGlobalizationAffluent Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“It's very difficult, historically, to define what an elite is. But whatever it is, people are very angry at that idea, I think, not so much because of wealth or privilege as much as attitude that the populous masses, if I could use that overused term, feel that a particular government or cultural group is not subject to the ramifications of their own ideology.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsIdeasUseGovernmentDifficultTermWealthAttitudeGroupsSubjectsParticularMassAngryPrivilegeIdeologyIf I CouldElitesRamificationsOverused Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.” GovernmentWealthEnemyCreationSourceProveDestructivePreferencePrivate SectorShrinkingRedistribution Of Wealth Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.” CountryHardPoliticsNaturalWealthGenerationsHard WorkInvestmentValuableNobleCaliforniaWarningCemeteryBountyTouchstones Author:Victor Davis Hanson
