Quotes About Class

It is the privilege of nobility to condescend.

At Arnhem, the British fielded too many gentlemen and not enough players.

Sir Edward Grey belongs to the class which, through heredity and tradition, expects to find a place on the magisterial bench to sit in judgement upon and above their fellow men, before they ever have any opportunity to make themselves acquainted with the tasks and trials of mankind.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

The poor work to make money for the rich, the middle class work to make money for themselves, the rich make money from other people's work.

I always thought talent was everything, but maybe it was always money. Or even class. Or if not class exactly, connections.

It took some time for the hierarchy of Blessington to make sense

I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.

Marx was an astronomer of history, not an astrologer.

You make James Bond look like he shops at a thrift store and cuts his own hair.

The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it's the cash that has him.

A closely connected idea is historian George Chauncey's argument that gay and lesbian communities found their earliest manifestations in poor and working-class cultures, because wealthier classes could maintain a greater degree of personal privacy. For LGBT people, the luxury of privacy was antithetical to forming communities, which are, by their nature, public in bringing similar people together.

You are an old soul, fortunately housed in very lovely wrapping.

of the most cruel class struggle" in higher education over "the question who will be master." Reflecting the confidence of the cells, the conference resolution boasted that current events proved the communist student body was the only base on which the state could rely in restructuring the higher school. The student cells demanded the right to help determine all party policies affecting "school construction."60 With

His answer foreshadowed the rise of a new conservative populism built around the politics of patriotism and social identity rather than economic advantage and class division. "Because, you see, I love my country. And I think my country is in danger.

Race makes class hurt more.

If you look in the dictionary under 'white trash' there's a picture of my family." from BREAKFAST WITH NERUDA, p 37

As royalty, celebrities and the rich have always known, a smile is the most subtle and satisfying way of shitting on the inferior.

Marxists interpreted everything in terms of class; Freudians in terms of childhood; and feminists in terms of gender.

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.

He recognizes that the inherent tendency of history is for the wealthy to win out and make society increasingly unequal. This argument also has been made by Thomas Piketty and based largely on the inheritance of great fortunes

The wealthy and powerful have rigged the system to perpetuate their privilege; the professional classes have figured out how to pass their advantages on to their children, converting the meritocracy into a hereditary aristocracy; colleges that claim to select students on merit give an edge to the sons and daughters of the wealthy and the well-connected. According to this complaint, meritocracy is a myth, a distant promise yet to be redeemed.14

Of those born poor in America, few make it to the top. In fact, most do not even make it to the middle class.

But differences of talent are as morally arbitrary as differences of class.23