Country of Lords Quotes

“Give the votes to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich who will be able to buy them.”
― Kim Phillips-Fein, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America

“This belief in the basic need for hierarchy and in the inferiority of the working class appears, with variations, around the world. But it is especially notable in American history.”
― Kim Phillips-Fein, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America

“to go directly to Washington’s salary. “History is to know two Washingtons, one white, the other black, both Fathers of their People,” Carnegie wrote.”
― Kim Phillips-Fein, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America

“The early nineteenth century gave Americans one other language with which to defend economic inequality: the framework of hierarchy that was innate to a slave society.”
― Kim Phillips-Fein, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America

“Food, raiment, and habitations, the indispensable wants of all, are not to be obtained without the continual toil of ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind.”
― Kim Phillips-Fein, Country of Lords: Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight against Equality in America