Quotes About Class

Vestía con la misma sobriedad que el hombre de la escopeta: ropas sencillas, discretas, con aire de usadas, pero aun con ellas no perdía el punto de elegancia y clase, la dignidad de la que siempre se había revestido. La misma que no se perdía ni se ganaba con una guerra, porque iba pegada a la piel y al carácter como un sello de poder.

Guardai senza rimpianti la casa-grande . L'amore per la mia classe, per i braccianti e gli operai, amore umano e grande, avrebbe ucciso l'amore meschino per la figlia del padrone. La pensavo così, e avevo ragione. Alla curva della strada mi voltai. Honório mi salutava con le sue mani enormi. Sulla veranda della casa-grande il vento scompigliava i capelli di Mária. Io partivo per la lotta col cuore pulito e felice.

Los españoles cargaron con la vajilla y las mujeres y destruyeron el Gran Teocali. Destruyeron además la sociedad azteca, que estuvo dividida en las siguientes clases: nobles, sacerdotes, guerreros, mercaderes, macehuales y esclavos; e hicieron una nueva división: vencedores y vencidos, que se conservó, aunque con otros nombres, hasta el tiempo de Porfirio Díaz, en el que estas dos clases sociales se llamaron, respectivamente, 'la gente decente y los pelados'.

Mein Mann ist zwar Inhaber einer Bank, aber wir sind sehr arm‹, sagte sie, derart unverschämt, dass ich Lust hatte, sie erschießen zu lassen.

After the aristocracy of birth had come the aristocracy of money.

I once asked the servants why none of them had blue eyes like my aunts. They replied that only the ladies could afford to buy the blue glass cups in which they kept their eyes at night to make them more blue and beautiful, and furthermore, if we went on asking silly questions, the rats that steal the faces of inquisitive children in order to wear them as masks would come to take us to live in the twilit world between the ceiling and the roof where no one ever dared to go.

What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic

A society without an aristocracy, without an elite minority, is not a society.

No hay caso: hay gorilas por todos lados. Hasta en una pizzería de mierda. Pero entendamos: el Gordo es el patrón. Y en este país apenas cualquier pobre tipo llega a ser patrón se convierte en traidor, en buchón, abomina de su clase, quiere trepar, ser un señor, dar lástima en los salones de clase alta. Pero estar ahí.

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Snobbery? But it's only a form of despair.

beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep.

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

He wore a gleaming top hat. He had a pomaded, uptwirled black moustache. He looked like a first-class funeral.

During our World History lesson that morning, Mr. Avenovich loaded up a stand-alone simulation so that our class could witness the discovery of King Tut's tomb by archaeologists in Egypt in AD 1922. (The day before, we'd visited the same spot in 1334 BC and had seen Tutankhamen's empire in all its glory.)

The rich were dull and they drank too much…. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, Yes, they have more money.

Then he spoke of James Joyce. He told about Joyce's family, his religion, his education, his writing. He spoke of a book called Dubliners and a story in the book titled "Ivy Day in the Committee Room." Regardless of race, regardless of class, that story was universal, he said.

He belonged to that special class of men the species produces every so often, in whom a craving for limitless power is so extreme that any suffering to achieve it seems natural, and he had become the omnipotent ruler of a warrior nation.

It is infinitely more appealing to be a criminal than a bourgeois.

When the bosses exploit them [the workers] they pay no heed to party distinctions and starve them all the same; when the carabinieri pepper their chests with the kings lead, they do not bother to ask what sort of membership card they carry in their pockets.

Il dilemma innanzi a cui si troverà la rivoluzione resta sempre: o organizzarsi volontariamente a vantaggio di tutti o essere organizzati per forza da un governo a vantaggio di una classe dominante.

Though it sometimes looks like a rich man will never help the poor; whereas the poor people will give away everything they has to help somebody who ain't got nothing. That's how it looks to me. Don't seem like it ought to be that way, but I reckon the rich ain't got no time to fool with us poor folks.

Mister Philip was merely a man of his class, nothing more. His great passions were not passions but distractions; one day was but a bridge to the next. He took in the world with a mild dissatisfaction, for the world was of little consequence.