Quotes About Class

There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.

I translated Beatles songs for my English class.

Even at his age he knew that there are basically two categories of people in a society: those who have, and those who have not. But according to the egalitarian principles of any communist society, those 'haves' should share with the 'have nots.' And because there is not much to share anyway, in the end that egalitarianism boils down to the equal distribution of poverty.

And even those who would like to believe in egalitarianism must ask themselves why we have to be equal only in poverty.

The active pacifists, however, are not of this class: they are not men without impulsive force but men in whom some impulse to which war is hostile is strong enough to overcome the impulses that lead to war.

The rich rob the poor and the poor rob one another.

Yes,' she said, 'the rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

For some reason I hesitate to tell him where I live. I don't want to come across as the spoiled little rich girl that's fallen low. Even if I am.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.

Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.

The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.

If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.

Backed into a corner, the poor can riot, but the rich start war.

Our decisions are to a much greater extent dependent on our desire to conform to the standards of our class and environment than we are inclined to admit. A considerable proportion of our reasoning is merely an automatic function, so to speak, of influences and impressions which have become part of us...

The desire to ascend in the social scale does not make itself felt until the intellect awakens. Up to the tenth, and often up to the fifteenth year, almost every child belonging to a well-to-do family envies its proletarian schoolmates, to whom so many things are permissible which for the "respectable" are placed under taboo.

The Minister-President or the richest magnate could walk the streets of Vienna without anyone turning around, but a court actor or an opera singer was recognized by every salesgirl and every cabdriver.

Am liebsten hätte sie geschrien oder mit den Fäusten getobt, sich freizumachen von dem Grauen dieser Erinnerung, die fest wie ein Angelhaken in ihrem Gehirn saß, dieses wüste Gesicht mit seinem höhnischen Lachen, dieser Dunst von Gemeinheit, der aufstieg vom schlechten Atem der Proletarierin, dieser wüste Mund, der voll Haß ihr hart bis ins Gesicht die niedrigen Worte gespien, und die gehobene rote Faust, mit der sie ihr gedroht hatte.

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.

without any actual aristocracy in America, the best those who wanted to be upper class could do was create systems of exclusivity and codes of conduct.

By limiting their moral concerns to domestic and sexual behavior, many members of the middle class were able to ignore the harsh realities of life for the lower classes or even to blame working people's problems on their not being sufficiently committed to domesticity and female purity. Yet the establishment of a male breadwinner/female homemaker family in the middle and upper classes often required large sections of the lower class to be unable to do so.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

A rich man's lie has more validity than a poor man's truth in a materialistc world