Quotes About Class

Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

As soon as you enter the system to denounce it, you are automatically made a part of it. There is no ideal omega point today from which hard and fast judgments can be made. You can see that those who make accusations against the political class are the same ones who replenish it. The class is fed by the accusations made against it. Even the bluntest critic is caught up in this circularity.

A generation has disappeared or changed direction. A backfire against theoretical radicalism – and one in which socialism has played its part. The symbolic murder of the intellectual class, not at all unlike the symbolic murder of the political class by the silent majorities.

Si vous voulez que je vous dise quel est le drâme de la poésie : c'est que la poésie est, malgré tout, un privilège aristocratique de naissance ; et que tous les privilèges conduise directement à la guillotine.

Daha çok, ayd?n?n fazladan bir adam, orta s?n?flar?n baÅŸar?s?z bir ürünü, kusurlar? dolay?s?yla ayr?cal?ks?z s?n?flar?n k?y?s?nda yaÅŸayan ve onlara hiçbir zaman kat?lamayan biri olduÄŸunu söyleyemez miyiz?

Homelessness is illegal. In my city no one is homeless although there are an increasing number of criminals living on the street. It was smart to turn an abandones class into a criminal class, sometimes people feel sorry for the down and outs, they never feel sorry for criminals, it has been a great stabilizer.

Passion is not well bred.

The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education or class. Books were my birthright too.

We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.

Sometimes the so-called law is nothing but the haves telling the have-nots to stay in their place.

Real ladies do not know the price of things

Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.

The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.

I love working out and when I'm home. I love the feeling of walking out of a class. That's just an addictive feeling for me.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.