Quotes About Class

Exchange, fair or unfair, always presupposes and includes the rule of the bourgeoisie.

I was just finishing up my drink then I was off to get the night bus.' Carol grinned. 'Your sophistication never ceases to amaze me. What's wrong with a taxi?' 'You get a better class of nutter on the night bus. I blend in perfectly

This book focuses on science and development as patriarchal projects not as a denial of other sources of patriarchy, such as religion, but because they are thought to be class, culture, and gender neutral.

That was the same week my physics teacher taught my class the concept of infinity. I cried about it every night for months.

I joined the Pass Mods. class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin

Intersectionality To the strange folk wandering through the byways of Agenda 21, intersectionality (an ugly word if ever I saw one – as, incidentally, are many of the words created by and for the Agenda 21 disciples) is the theory that as individuals we are discriminated against and oppressed by social identities such as race, sex and class. (They never mention age, of course, because old people don't count.)

Because I'm not a white boy, I'm not white enough for white folks. And because I wasn't born into the middle class, I'm not completely accepted by the mainstream. And sometimes, if you can believe it, I'm not ghetto enough for the mainstream or middle class enough for the ghetto or black enough for white folks!

A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself.... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

The bourgeois…they will always be traitors and cowards

To steal from a rich man has always been a greater crime than to kill a poor man.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

I think beauty has a lot to do with class. A bit of mystery. Rarity.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

A developed country isn't a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

Hannah wanted to put the next day's work on the blackboard. This would mean that she needn't turn her back on the class first thing, which is as unwise in junior teaching as in lion-taming.

men in high collars who might—this

Of course the town fed off all the sweat and labour of the miners and the poor selectors on the plains below but in those grand stone buildings they could bankrupt or hang you as they pleased.

the black elite here swan round in squadrons of the latest luxury SUVs, each of which is worth ten times this eccentric old thing.