Quotes About Class

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

To deprive the bourgeoisie not of its art but of its concept of art, this is the precondition of a revolutionary argument.

Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

Bahwa orang yang punya itu banyak menimbulkan kesusahan pada yang tak punya. Dan mereka tak merasai ini.

Seorang pelayan wanita menghidangkan susu coklat dan kue. Dan pelayan itu tidak datang merangkak-rangkak seperti pada majikan Pribumi. Malah dia melihat padaku seperti menyatakan keheranan. Tak mungkin yang demikian terjadi pada majikan Pribumi: dia harus menunduk, menunduk terus. Dan alangkah indah kehidupan tanpa merangkak-rangkak di hadapan orang lain.

Ah, Mas Nganten ini. Bagi orang kebanyakan seperti sahaya ini kita kawin supaya semakin susah. Tentu beda dengan para priyayi besar, mereka kawin supaya jadi senang.

Burning the poor man's candles, counting the rich man's money. #Dontbefooledagain

The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen, and voids monks.

The rich man makes mistakes and the poor men get the blame.

The rich would have to eat money if the poor did not provide food. #HotspotDrama

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

Engineers, scientists, and doctors merely exploit their capital—their diplomas—as middle-class employers exploit a factory, or as nobles used to exploit their titles of nobility.

Political economy has always confined itself to stating facts occurring in society, and justifying them in the interest of the dominant class. Therefore, it pronounces itself in favour of the division of labour in industry. Having found it profitable to capitalists, it has set it up as a principle.

The "right to well-being" means the possibility of living like human beings, and of bringing up children to be members of a society better than ours, whilst the "right to work" only means the right to be always a wage-slave, a drudge, ruled over and exploited by the middle class of the future.

What fatherland can the international banker and rag-picker have in common?

Society is thus bound to remain divided into two hostile camps, and in such conditions freedom is a vain word.

What are you reading?" "Visual Basics." The answer did not fit the picture in his mind. But it should not be surprising, he thought. He, too, had been taking an evening class on Windows applications.

All the golden societies of the past to which historians point and turn their wistful smiles have had what patience-players would call a discard pile. They operated on two levels with a slave class who worked, ate, slept, and died and a leisured class who reclined on one elbow and spoke. Naturally it is from this latter group that we learn what life at that time was like. It often makes charming reading but we can hardly take it to be the whole truth.

It is hard enough to share wealth without being involved in undignified scenes; shared poverty consists of nothing else.

He did not look so old, since age generally follows on tailoring. He did not look so terribly well bred, since class follows the same rules.

I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.

Party affiliations based on issues such as class or race are slowly eroding. Against this backdrop, gathering data about voting intentions remains necessary, but insufficient.

I think Britain is a bit class-ridden. People tend to be judged by how rounded their vowels are.