Status Updates From Down and Out in Paris and L...

”The mob, the thought runs, are such low animals, that they would be dangerous if they had leisure. It is safer to keep them too busy to think. A rich man […] usually says something like this: ’We know that poverty is unpleasant. […] But don’t expect us to do anything about it! We are sorry for you lower classes, but we will fight like devils against any improvement of your condition.’”