Quotes About Class

Identifying the bourgeois class with the bourgeois mentality tricks the enemies of the bourgeoisie. The liquidation of a bourgeois class in the modern world is, in effect, nothing more than a slaughter that does not imply the abolition of a bourgeois mentality that already dominates all of society.

Marxists define the bourgeoisie in economic terms in order to hide from us the fact that they belong to it.

When they die, aristocracies explode; democracies deflate.

Die Aristokraten sind die normalen; die Demokraten die Fehlgeburten der Geschichte.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

They learned from an early age that the classless society of Communism had a more rigid class system than the despised capitalist society, where a man could move from the lower to the upper class by his own effort.

Marx's main interest was in economic relationships since in his view they shape everything that we are and can become.

En la vida, en cualquier lugar, bien entre las duras, pobres, tristes y sucias filas de la clase baja, o entre las uniformemente frías y de monótona pulcritud de la clase elevada, y por lo menos una vez en la vida, el hombre encuentra en su camino una visión que no se parece nada de lo que ha visto hasta entonces, que despierta en él un sentimiento distinto de aquellos que le está predestinado sentir durante toda su existencia.

I am very fond of the theatre. If I have only a kopeck in my pocket, I always go there. Most of my fellow-officials are uneducated boors, and never enter a theatre unless one throws free tickets at their head.

In fact, when you think about it, if a word from the street occurs in a book it is not the writer who is guilty, but the readers, and primarily those readers belonging to the upper classes: for they are the ones who will never utter a single decent Russian word; their speech is so abundantly stuffed with every manner of French, German, and English words that you want to block your ears...

In a certain Russian ministerial department—— But it is perhaps better that I do not mention which department it was. There are in the whole of Russia no persons more sensitive than Government officials. Each of them believes if he is annoyed in any way, that the whole official class is insulted in his person.

We have torn down the worst slums. The natural meeting-points for the lumpenproletariat have been eliminated, converted into pleasant, dull, clean blocks for dull, clean, adapted families. In the absence of ghettos for the losers, they gather around the centres of pride. If Harlem and its equivalents did not exist, they would gather outside the Rockefeller Center.

Entering an white tie and tails party wearing an ordinary suit, he announced,"Please, I don't want anyone to apologize for over dressing.

Only people of low birth pressed questions likely to embarrass.

There was class distinction in the RAF, as there was and still is in British society as a whole. It was said, for example, that a regular officer was an officer trying to be a gentleman, an auxiliary was a gentleman trying to be an officer and a VR was neither trying to be both.

Fakir fukaran?n hayat?n? anlatan zengin yazarlar?m?za gece kulüplerinde içtikleri viskileri zehir oluyor. Zengin tak?m?n?n hayat?n? gözlerimizin önüne sermeye çal??an meteliksiz yazarlar?m?z da asl?nda ?u fakir milleti dü?ündükleri için, küçük meyhanelerinde a??z tad?yla içemiyorlar.

Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression. We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to took down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.

Some middle class men prove they're men by having a lot of wives in temporary or permanent relationships. Some upper class men prove they're men by having one wife and a lot of beautiful, disposable young servant girls. Nasty.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

the laws govern the poor, and the rich govern the law

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. … And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy.

She's just a typical bourgeois reactionary.' 'You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.

There were no peasants doffing their hats here; no one was exempt from paying taxes; all men, in fact, were born equal.