Quotes About Class

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility.

I love hip-hop music, ... It's rebel music is how I like to speak about it. Hip-hop and reggae come from the same community as far as class...they both come from the bottom of society.

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

There are only two families in the world as a Grandmother of mine used to say the haves and the have-nots.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Tis the final conflict! Let each stand in his place! The international working class shall be the human race!

These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.

It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

La nobleza es cara, improductiva y parasitaria, y absorbe demasiada energía de la sociedad para satisfacer sus frívolos antojos.

Trotsky once wrote: How many Aristoteles are herding swine? And how many swineherds are sitting on thrones? Class society impoverishes people, not just materially but psychologically. The lives of millions of human beings are confined to the narrowest limits. Their mental horizons are stunted. Socialism would release all the colossal potential that is being wasted by capitalism.

Are there no British natives? In Wales, Ireland and Scotland perhaps. In England we still have a class of farmers, farm servants, estate workers et cetera, but the landowners and city dwellers regard them as useful animals, like horses and dogs.

Our system of class prejudice is the cleverest piece of self-frustrating daftness since the Tower of Babel, it benefits nobody but a few at the top. We fool ourselves into fooling others into fooling ourselves even more.