Quotes About Class

Could the fractious tendencies engendered by years of fighting be channeled in constructive directions? The Revolution had unified sharply disparate groups. Without the bonds of wartime comradeship, would the divisive pulls of class, region, and ideology tear the new country apart?

Rockefeller felt no discomfort at being surrounded by humble people

I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.

It was at this point, visualizing too vividly another Mr. Kaplan in the class, that anxious little lines had crept around Mr. Parkhill´s eyes.

Some] Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.

Americans are generally incapable of perceiving class differences among blacks and are quick to ascribe antisocial underclass behavior to all African Americans.

Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

in a manner befitting your station while at Spence. It's fine to be kind to the lesser girls, but remember that they are not your equals." Station. Lesser girls. Not your equals. It's a laugh, really.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London is full of women of the highest society who have remained thirty-five for years.

This was the innovating constitutional heaven brought into being by Spanish American independence struggles; and, in some regions, the impact was dramatic and long-lasting. By the mid nineteenth century, the political life of large stretches of South America was more inclusive in terms of social class and race – though not gender – than in the United States or much of Europe.

One morning just after Joe had left to drive to his class, Mary walked out to the barn and reflected on her state of hussiness. All in all, she was satisfied with it. Being a hussy had its advantages.

Only the rich can stand for office.

I would sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

The very mudsills of society. We call them slaves. But I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it. It is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

The most important eugenic policy at this time is to see that birth control is made equally available to all individuals in every class of society

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Class is a way of looking at society that divides people into different categories based on how much money they're willing to make.

There are only two classes in society: those who get more than they earn, and those who earn more than they get.

It is untrue that some are poor because others are rich. If an order of society in which incomes were equal replaced the capitalist order, everyone would become poorer.