Quotes About Class

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I had never met a lord before, nor had I ever expected to meet one. It didn't matter what he looked like: he was a lord first, and a human being, with a face and limbs and body, long, long after.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

Colombia es hoy un país donde los pobres no pueden comer, la clase media no puede comprar y los ricos no pueden dormir.

The middle class child says a rock is a stone; a lower class child says a rock is hard, and you throw it.

The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.

The age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.

How apt the poor are to be proud.

The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.

Blood Brothers

They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.

We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

In Emerson's words, "A great style of hero draws equally all classes, all the extremes of society, till we say the very dogs believe in him.

Contrary to popular belief being rich (and having a lot of money) doesn't automatically mean you have class.

Sometimes it's necessary to shame the city's business class, the columnist later remarked, to remind them that a city like San Francisco is more than just a real estate opportunity—it's "a precious, special, fragile place.

thought of my mother, the beautiful actress who had married in secret and borne a love child, only to have her sweet prince marry another—a woman of his own class who would fill his royal nursery with pedigreed babies while his firstborn grew up motherless.

Always walk with style and finesse.

Once machines performed all the servile functions formerly performed by the lower classes, the population immediately achieved equality, ending over ten thousand years of class systems.