Quotes About Class

Their primary idea was the old Bengali idea of the Motherland, the idea that Bengal had given to the rest of India, Debu said: the idea that India had to be a country one could be proud of. The idea had decayed in Bengal since independence, Debu said. 'In my class the idea is still there, but it is a remnant of the past – considered an anachronism – and in the class above, the industrialists and businessmen, the idea exists more or less as a negative quantity.

attributed the decay of Hindu society in Trinidad to the rise of the timorous, weak, non-beating class of husband.

Treba podi?i mase protiv njih i sve ih uništiti kao klasu te prokletnike...Da bi ih ubili, trebalo je izjavitwi, Kulaci, to nisu ljudska bi?a, kao što su i Nijemci govorili, Jevreji, to nisu lj bi?a.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

Protect the workers, encourage the rich.

The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

He visited the poor so long as he had any money; when he no longer had any, he visited the rich.

Il visitait les pauvres tant qu'il avait de l'argent; quand il n'en avait plus, il visitait les riches.

Yet internally, poverty, the proletariat, wages, education

in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits;

Madame Dufour stood at the head of the table, dressed in a severe black dress that revealed the soup spoon–sized hollow at the base of her long neck. A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece, ladies, and choose it well; everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness).

It's all about class struggle, isn't it? Serfs against landlords throughout history. Marx and Engels are right. If there was only one class, where everyone worked for the good of all, it would be a better world.

The Age of Innocence.

Mrs. Rondle gave us a pop quiz. So lame.

En soutenant le régime parlementaire, la bourgeoisie a cherché tout bonnement à opposer une digue à la royauté, sans donner de liberté au peuple.

corporate funds" used "for political purposes" were "one of the principal sources of corruption" and had "tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.

And while I still resist defaulting to conspiracist explanations, pieces of this story do look and swim and walk and quack an awful lot like ducks—that is, resemble a well-executed conspiracy, not especially secret, by the leaders of the capitalist class, at the expense of everyone else.

Suddenly I caught sight of myself in a glass and saw what a figure of fun I looked. Hitherto I had always taken my appearance for granted; now I saw how inelegant it was, compared with theirs; and at the same time, for the first time, I was acutely aware of social inferiority. I felt utterly out of place among these smart rich people, and a misfit everywhere.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

An oppressed class which does not strive to learn the use of weapons [the Russian word, oruzhiia, contains another wonderful long r], to practice the use of weapons, to own weapons, deserves to be mistreated Ã¢â'¬Â¦ The demand for disarmament in the present-day world is nothing but an expression of despair.

Because my father had the equivalent of a few thousand dollars, and their fathers had nothing. Money, my friend. Money bought us our lives. And that is called privilege. We bought our lives, while those who couldn't afford to were slaughtered like animals.

It can only benefit the city to have endless waves of exceptionally capable, even brilliant, folk unfettered by class and family connections. They change the world once a generation. That is certainly worth something.

She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.