Quotes About Class

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.

Don't confuse good taste with the absence of taste.

I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.

It is a very good thing, and a significant one too, to exterminate the bourgeoisie and capitalism in China.

Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

Good taste shouldn't have to cost anything extra.

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.

The few who understand the system, will either be so interested from it's profits or so dependent on it's favors, that there will be no opposition from that class.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

Democrats don't resent the rich on behalf of the poor. They resent the rich on behalf of the government.

The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

I think people are tuning out the political class, tuning out the national media, and the American people are just gonna - we're just gonna demand government as good as our people again.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.