Quotes About Class

Second class travel is better than third class walking.

She more than likely came from good enough people. Poor, honest, hard-working folks that never got ahead but did all right as long as they kept their heads down and didn't study too much on what they didn't have.

One Domain Vocabulary A class that uses terms from multiple domains might be violating context independence, unless it's part of a bridging layer.

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms along lines of education, economic security, housing, etc, necessary to address the root causes.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.

I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford - rough and full of trainee punks - but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry.

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.

The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.

I'm considering getting an Apple Watch just so I can sneak glances to make sure I'm not missing anything during class.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Class and the snobbery it provokes still matter far too much in Britain, but we are a far more mobile society than we used to be.

The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this is where you belong and this is where you are.

Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

In a land where all slaves are servants, all servants are slaves, and thus ends democracy.

Why can't it be the factories that are smashed to the ground, the sweater's dens that are consumed with flames, rather than the opera houses and the fine homes? Why should people living on a higher plane be dragged down to a lower, rather than those on a lower rising to a higher?

Todos nosotros somos a la vez objeto de repugnancia y de envidia. Todos nosotros menos los muy pobres, los que sólo tienen por debajo de ellos el pozo séptico del infierno.

Hay que admitir, en suma, que este poder se ejerce más que se posee, que no es el "privilegio" adquirido o conservado de la clase dominante sino el efecto de conjunto de sus posiciones estratégicas, efecto que manifiesta, y a veces acompaña, la posición de aquellos que son dominados.

It would be hypocritical or naïve to believe that the law was made for all in the name of all; that it would be more prudent to recognise that it was made for the few and that it was brought to bear upon the others; that in principle it applies to all citizens, but that it is addressed principally to the most numerous and least enlightened classes.

Ratero, si un pobre se mete en casa de un rico, ya se sabe, es un ladrón ¿no? —Un ladrón —asintía el Ratero. —Pero si un rico se mete en casa de un pobre, ¿qué es? —¿Qué es? —repetía estúpidamente el tío Ratero. —¡Una rata!