Quotes About Class

I disappear for twenty minutes into Ford Maddox Ford's The Good Soldier while John does the dishes, fighting past my initial irritation all the class nonsense and how no one will say anything of significance because it's simply not done to be explicit. Like in James or Wharton. Those novels where you're screaming at characters to go ahead already and blurt it out, save us a hundred pages of prevarication.

And so the bulk of chicotte blows were inflicted by Africans on the bodies of other Africans. This, for the conquerors, served a further purpose. It created a class of foremen from among the conquered, like the kapos in the Nazi concentration camps and the predurki, or trusties, in the Soviet gulag. Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror

The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

As billionaire investor Warren Buffett famously put it: "Actually, there's been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.

This means that a people cannot be made "national" according to the signification attached to that word by our bourgeois class today - that is to say, nationalism with many reservations- but national in the vehement and extreme sense.

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.

I]t's impossible to overestimate the need to maintain a healthy peasant class, as the basis of the national community. Many of our present evils have their origin exclusively in the imbalance between urban and rural populations. A solid group of small- and mid-scale farmers has always been the best protection against social disease.

The past four decades have seen one of the most depressing developments in the history of the meritocratic idea: the marriage between merit and money.

Everything in America is so stratified by class now. We have the 93rd level of income inequality in the world. You're already seeing highway lanes that are for pay and ones that aren't.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job.

Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Not that I am hugely working class, but in the U.K. I'm always perceived, casting-wise, as being working class.

Golf didn't seem like it was for everybody. I didn't grow up with a whole lot of money, and my perception was that golf was for a snootier crowd.

Hugo Boss is one of those brands that fits me perfectly.

I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

I was always the class clown, and I think I gravitated toward performing for the attention I didn't always think I was getting at home.

I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.

A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.