Quotes About Class

Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time.

I went to university with no money. I can't understand a society that wouldn't give a poor person the same opportunity as a rich person.

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

1% of the population has all the money and the other 99% have nothing.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

I don't think that money makes you any better brought up than I was.

[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford.

The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

Do you come from old money, new money, or no money?

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

We are just peasants with money.

WoyzeckUs poor people. Yes, money, money. You see, Captain, if you have no money. Try raising someone like me in this world on morals alone. Man is also flesh and blood.

Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can't resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.

If the rich could hire other people to die for them the poor would make a wonderful living.

When you want really big money you usually find yourself talking to people who didn't go to Eton.

The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes.

The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.

Definition of the upper crust: A bunch of crumbs held together by dough.

Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.

Unlike landed white men, she didn't need to climb mountains to experience mystic panic. All she needed was to set her alarm dock for the next morning, wake when it rang, and go to class.