Quotes About Class

I don't like to label films with a genre.

There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

Preach comfort to the rich and you will grow fat; preach hell to the poor and you will starve with them. [p. 319 of 465, chapter 20]

You could ask me to teach you." "Huh?" This night is getting weird in a hurry. "Teach me like you're teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: 'You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101'?" "It would be more like a graduate-level class." I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who's talking and bite it off.

This is not LA, people. We shine instead of sparkle, we smile and bless their hearts instead of giving the finger. Like my mama taught me about wearing jewelry: Put on everything you want to wear, and then take one thing off.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

Capital is dead labor, which, ampire-like, Iives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Christian Socialism is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Class in England is no more determined by wealth than it is by occupation.

the greatest trick of kings is to fool the poor into thinking we have common cause with the rich simply because we live on the same bog. Then the poor get their heads split open in the battles they fight so the rich can keep their wine cellars well stocked.

Try as he might, Gatsby remains outside the inner sanctum and nothing he can do will allow him full access. He will never be accepted by anyone but the nouveaux riches.

Gonzaga were aware of, though seemingly undisturbed by, the rise of a strong merchant class financially outreaching the aristocracy, the hordes of Protestants in the north; and the renewed ambition and drive of the king of France.

And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. The girl was the one telling her to go away, it was her house and Verena was the maid.