Quote#Money & Wealth
Every one but an ideot knows that the lower classes must be kept…
Quote byArthur Young · 1741–1820
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Arthur Young (1771), The Farmer's Tour through the East of England, v. 4, p. 361..
English (original)
every one but an ideot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious:: I do not mean that the poor in England are to be kept like the poor of France; but the state of the country considered, they must be (like all mankind) in poverty, or they will not work.
— Arthur Young
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