Quotes About Class

Human beings could hate to the point of killing whom they hated, based on class and race and politics and religion and mere envy.

not spawned by the lower classes but by the highest, by privileged young men and women made ignorant by the most expensive universities and schooled in violence by the culture of death that produced them.

Max looked startled at her question, like a kid who had just arrived in class to discover there was an algebra test he hadn't studied for.

they had become the people her parents worked for. But they were better versions. And her parents, hungry as they were, would have expected no less. You couldn't fight the Haves. The only thing you could do was become them to such a degree that they came to you for what they had not.

Oh God. It isn't Wednesday, is it, Hardy?" he pleaded, ascending the steps toward the footman, who smiled at sight of him, bowing as he opened the door. Yes, my lord. Has been all day, I'm afraid

But there—poor men mun bleed for the rich man's gold, and always will, eh?

Many times, people attack the well-to-do people. They see an opportunity.

Talking about class and identity can be as divisive as talking about race and racism.

When you're in part of the same draft class, you always have a certain connection that not many other people can have with each other.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

When I get dressed, I do wear Armani.

I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.

The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

The reversion of American society to a nation of the superrich and the rest... is straining the country in ways that go way beyond economics.

I come from an educated family, but we were poor.

She is elegant rather than belle.

The art house is an elitist idea.

Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

I believe in equality: guys have rights, women have rights. It should be the same with race, or class, or whatever. I just like balance.

No, hijo. Espera. Buscaremos otro... —Ellos mandan, padre. Los nobles mandan. Mandan en el campo, mandan en vuestras tierras y mandan en la ciudad (p. 166)

This can be explained in part by understanding and accepting the historical fact that almost all past cultures, however seen as great, otherwise, were fundamentally based on massive broadband slavery, serfdom, and various other under-classes whose principal function was to be in servitude to the upper overlords. Such was certainly the case, for example, in ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Roman, Chinese, and most old Nordic cultures, etc.

I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.