Quotes About Class

There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning.

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

More important than anything else is for Americans to wise up to class warfare demagoguery and reject the politics of envy.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

Only struggle educates the exploited class. Only struggle discloses to it the magnitude of its own power, widens its horizon, enhances its abilities, clarifies its mind, forges its will.

Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

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Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.

Nearly every person you meet is aiming at a situation in which he will be exempted from the drudgery of laboring with his hands. We cannot all become "lords" and "gentlemen.

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.

And he loved her—with the exalted and romantic intensity that a social climber gives to a woman whom he thinks superior to his own class.

26They might not be able to inflame poor non-slaveholding whites to secession and possible war to protect the planter's investment in slaves, but an appeal to fears of racial amalgamation cut across class lines.

A poor man might count for very little, but he was still free and white, which at least made him better than a free black or a slave, and in a society deeply dominated by class and caste, that was something worth fighting for.