Quotes About Class

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

I have at all times tried to use my influence toward protecting the property holders and substantial men of the country from thieves, outlaws and murderers, among whom I do not care to be classed.

POSH Before air-conditioning, cabins on the side of ocean liners facing the sun became unbearably hot. Thus richer passengers paid a premium to have their tickets on the P&O Line from England to India stamped "Port Out—Starboard Home." So p.o.s.h. became a synonym for someone who was upper class. PULL

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

Conceitos vulgares como "entretenimento" são muito mais adequados do que considerações pretensiosas sobre um fato de um escritor ser representante da pequena burguesia e outro, da alta burguesia.

Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash of class interests, human behavior is nothing but a response to economic incentives, etc., etc.

Linguistic and educational relativism helps to transform a class into a caste – a caste, almost, of Untouchables.

A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for beauty, an aspiration without the likelihood of fulfilment.

An American Tragedy.

Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

The movement from Industry to Information would prove to be the fundamental economic shift of the next four decades, and it was hardly some secret conspiracy even then. Going forward, as Daniel Bell had explained, knowledge would replace labor, services would replace goods, and a new knowledge-based power class would emerge that would increase the role of women in the economy.