Quotes About Class

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

I love wearing very simple colours.

My school was pretty much all African Americans, but it was still a little tough to be in because I didn't have a lot of money. And when I came back to my neighborhood, it was tough to fit in there, too, because I was wearing Catholic school clothes, and I had two parents, which was rare.

Old money in Southeast Asia is much more discrete and low key. It's about not wearing brand names. It's about being invisible, almost. The billionaire can be taking the bus with you.

I made my first website in sixth grade. I was the only girl in my computer programming class.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

I would go to college and people would know me from the rave they went to at the weekend. So I would get a bit of respect. But I would always go to class and do my work. My mother made sure of that.

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.

Obama's economic policies widened the gap between the rich and the poor.

Well, killing me makes no sense because Georgia already has a Western-educated political class.

We think of ourselves as virulently anti-establishment, particularly 'anti-' the permanent political class.

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Senator Michael Bennet and members of the permanent political class have empowered President Obama's policies and their own agendas rather than the needs of constituents.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

Polo has always had an old-fashioned, aristocratic English feel.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

Very few people can afford to be poor.