Quotes About Class

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

No matter how early I wake up for class, I always have to rush to make it there on time.

Snobbery is with certain people analogous to those beverages in which the agreeable is mixed with the beneficial.

every social class has its own pathology...

But, as my sister says, 'there must always be poor people so that now that I'm rich I can shit on them.

He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have acquired an entirely different kind of culture, literary or artistic, of which they make no use in the specialised work of their profession, but by which their conversation profits.

Those who have minds have no regard for birth.

chaque classe sociale a sa pathologie)

Lastly, would not society become secretly more hierarchical as it became outwardly more democratic?

Interesante como a divisão de classes cria rituais próprios, que aumentam a distância entre elas.

Poincaré, unusually for his time and class, was a feminist and a strong supporter of animal rights, refusing, for example, to join the customary hunting parties at the presidential country estate.

Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.

El socialismo es un sistema que prefiere que los pobres sean más pobres con tal que los ricos sean menos ricos.

Once I've mastered the art of pretending that I don't care what other kids think of me, I start to pay attention in class, discovering that I love library research for history term papers about ancient lands. It feels like a form of time travel.

it seems as if people fought hardest against those who had a little more than themselves or often a little less, instead of the lugs who got richer and richer.

thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your social class was established for the rest of your life.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.

we should no longer look at the sexual division of labour as a problem related to the family only, but rather as a structural problem of a whole society. The hierarchical division of labour between men and women and its dynamics form an integral part of the dominant production relations, that is, the class relations of a particular epoch and society, and of the broader national and international divisions of labour.

La revolución beneficia al pobre, al ignorante, al que toda su vida ha sido esclavo, a los infelices que ni siquiera saben que si lo son es porque el rico convierte en oro las lágrimas, el sudor y la sangre de los pobres. || The revolution benefits the poor, the ignorant, who all his life has been a slave, the unfortunate who do not know if they are is because the rich becomes the tears, sweat and blood of the poor in gold.

Llega uno a cualquier parte y no tiene más que escoger la casa que le cuadre y ésa agarra sin pedirle licencia a naiden. Entonces ¿pa quién jue la revolución? ¿Pa los catrines? Si ahora nosotros vamos a ser los meros catrines.

La revolución beneficia al pobre, al ignorante, al que toda su vida ha sido esclavo, a los infelices que ni siquiera saben que si lo son es porque el rico convierte en oro las lágrimas, el sudor y la sangre de los pobres...

All hail that bane of the upper class, a scene. The spectre of being publicly shamed

High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class.

I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.