Quotes About Class

It is sometimes said that butlers only truly exist in England. Other countries, whatever title is actually used, have only manservants.

For the likes of yourself, it's always been easy to exert your influence. You can count the most powerful in the land as your friends. But the likes of us here, sir, we can go year in year out and never even lay eyes on a real gentleman

Everyone goes," I said. "The whole class." "Yeah, I know. Hayley asked if I was going, but I kind of figured that didn't exactly count as an invitation. Unless I went with her, which I'd really rather not." I had to laugh at his expression. "Don't blame you. But you can now consider yourself officially invited by the birthday girl. It's an easier way to meet people than hanging out at the smoking pit. Healthier, too.

As I passed Mrs. Morris, I motioned that I was going out to use the washroom. I'm sure she knew better, but she just smiled and waved me on. We aren't a school with a truancy problem. Let's be honest: Where would you go if you skipped class? No mall. No coffee shop. No hangout where the person running the place hasn't known you from childhood…and knows you should be in class.

The guys had made log benches for spectators, back when they were twelve and had visions of every girl in class lining those benches, swooning as they showed off in the ring. Never quite worked out that way--if there were spectators, they were more likely to be heckling than swooning--but the memory made me smile as I lowered myself quietly onto the bench behind Daniel.

Can't believe they're running when they're not even late. This used to be a nice, lazy class.

Privacy was an extravagance of lords: everyone else slept and made love downstairs in the communal hall.

It was going to be difficult for Maud to get out of the house alone. Like all upper-class ladies, she was not supposed to go anywhere unescorted. Men pretended this was because they were so concerned to protect their women, but in truth it was a means of control. No doubt it would remain until women won the vote.

Tommy stood on a chair and made a speech of welcome; then Billy had to respond. "The war has changed us all," he said. "I remember when people used to say the rich were put on this earth by God to rule over us lesser people." That was greeted by scornful laughs. "Many men were cured of that delusion by fighting under the command of upper-class officers who should not have been put in charge of a Sunday school outing." The other veterans nodded knowingly.

Don't be a hero. Leave that to them that started the war—the upper classes, the Conservatives, the officers.

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them.

The working class are more numerous than the ruling class, and stronger. They depend on us for everything. We provide their food and build their houses and make their clothes, and without us they die. They can't do anything unless we let them. Always remember that.

political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.

La classe ouvrière est beaucoup plus nombreuse que la classe dirigeante, et plus forte. Ces gens là dépendent entièrement de nous. C'est nous qui produisons leur nourriture, qui construisons leurs maisons, qui fabriquons leurs vêtements. Sans nous, ils sont morts. Ils ne peuvent pas se permettre n'importe quoi, sauf si nous les laissons faire. N'oublie jamais ça.

Nosotros pertenecemos a la nobleza —dijo su padre—. No tenemos por qué atender a las necesidades de unos simples mercaderes.

Pero entonces siempre hay una excusa para que la élite tenga sus privilegios especiales.

Thousands of working-class men and peasants would be killed on both sides, and nothing would be achieved. It proved, to Grigori and everyone he knew, that the Russian nobility were too stupid to govern. Even

O código de cavalaria não autorizava a nobreza francesa a ficar escondida atrás dos arqueiros mal nascidos, e aquela avançou para entrar em confronto com os cavaleiros ingleses – abdicando assim dos benefícios que a posição em que se encontravam lhes conferia.

A transfer of power from one faction to another faction within the same class is called a coup, and this changes nothing. A transfer of power from one class to another is called a revolution, and this does change things.

Los hijos de los nobles no pueden permitirse ser compasivos.

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

The bourgeois takes economic power very seriously, and often worships it quite unselfishly.

Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.