Quotes About Class

the most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminals of great wealth.

Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues

No one respected them for their labor in a country where the idea of honorable poverty had vanished.

eating dog food at the foot of the rich man's table.

Keller hesitated. "I suppose," he said pleasantly, "that any system that gives power to a particular class will tempt that class to exploit the powerless. It seems to be human nature.

Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about

Edward St. Aubyn

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

La noblesse est affaire de vocabulaire.

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

Bravo, ma per te sarà come un gioco, sarà come i ragazzini quando giocano a far gli indiani: farai l'indiano, ma i veri indiani siamo noialtri, veri operai e veri disoccupati; tu sarai sempre un indiano finto, ci avrai sempre papà con i suoi magazzini, di riserva, per tenerti su il morale, anche se, per puntiglio, ti lascerai morire di fame e il morale, nella disoccupazione, è tutto, bello mio.

As an explanation tool, the concept of class serves, first and foremost, to clarify who gains and who losses from specific economic processes and policies and with what consequences.

Or the poor's distrust of anything proposed by the rich and powerful (a distrust that is always proportionate to the mutual ignorance between those who feel it and those who inspire it, to the number of the poor, and to the inanity of the laws).

But a person can be protected or kept safe by his class only up to a point.

E quel che è peggio, è che le gride ci sono, stampate, per gastigarli: e non già gride senza costrutto; fatte benissimo [...]. E dice: sia chi si sia, vili e plebi.

proletariat.

all communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people

But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments;

Yale students were the first American students to organize a boycott against British-made goods, and when Hale was entering, the graduating class voted almost unanimously to appear "wholly dressed in the manufactures of our own country" at their commencement ceremony.

Well-bred' ensured buckled noses, high-arched feet, a predisposition to madness, and ... an innate belief in our own unquestioning superiority.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

In America, there are no noblemen or men of letters, and the people distrust the wealthy. Lawyers therefore constitute the superior political class and the most intellectual segment of society.