Quotes About Class

The old nobility was the most irreligious class of society before 1789, and the most pious after 1793 ...

it is certain that democracy annoys one part of the community, and that aristocracy oppresses another part.

The wealthy members of the community [in America] entertain a hearty distaste to the democratic institutions of their country. The populace is at once the object of their scorn and of their fears.

But the creation of unpaid offices is to form a class of wealthy and independent officials; that is the core of an aristocracy. If the people still retain the right to choose, the exercise of that right has inevitable limitations.

Hay otra cosa que aprendes cuando recorres el mundo. Existe una distinción de clases en todas las cosas. La gente ama a los de su propia clase y odia a los de su propia clase. Los chacales odian a los chacales, no se atreverían a odiar a un león»

Our mother is too well bred to hate,' Franny said. 'She disapproves.

Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

The concept of entitlement is familiar jargon in discussions of race and class, and it is just as widespread in the realm of disability. It's the idea that we are acting as if someone owes us something rather than merely asking to be treated with the respect and human dignity we deserve. It is the belief that people of a certain status or apparent condition have no right to demand better because we should just be happy with whatever we get. We should be happy we have anything at all.

For anyone but the landed gentry to refer to a room in their house as 'the library' might seem affected. But there really was no other word for it.

As their forces broke, the Yorkist cavalrymen raced to the horse park behind their own lines and mounted their steeds to give chase. As they thundered past, the King and Warwick, flushed with victory, yelled, 'Spare the commons! Kill the lords!' Their words went unheeded.

Peace and order could only be achieved when all classes of society were in harmony with each other. Disorder – such as heresy, rebellion, or trying to get above one's station in life – was regarded as the work of the Devil and therefore as mortal sin.

It's the rich what gets the pleasure, it's the poor what gets the blame.' I

I was what some foolish persons are pleased to call, and others, more foolish, are pleased to be called - an aristocrat.

The house seemed almost without smells at all, pleasant or foul, leaving me to wonder if the upper class existed on a different sort of air from the rest of the world, a breeze piped into their homes from above the clouds, so clean you had to pay for it.

Nobility is shown not by the respect one is given by the highest, but the respect one gives to the lowly.

Aquí todo el mundo al nacer tiene una determinada condición social. Están los plebeyos, que se ocupan de ir a la guerra, trabajar la tierra y realizar todos los trabajos manuales. Están los burgueses, que se ocupan de comerciar y de las tareas intelectuales. Está la nobleza, que son los dueños de la tierra y mandan sobre los demás. Y luego, claro, está la realiza... que no recuerdo para qué sirve

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally faded and tattered and worn-out

Angst is for the Middle Class" - Marcus in Rough Canvas

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Poetry is not simply a fashion of expression: it is the form of expression absolutely required by a certain class of ideas. Poetry, indeed, may be distinguished from Prose by the single circumstance, that it is the utterance of whatever in man cannot be perfectly uttered in any other than a rhythmical form: it is useless to say that the naked meaning is independent of the form: on the contrary, the form contributes essentially to the fullness of the meaning.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

The domestic life of most classes is relatively shabby, as compared with the éclat of that overt portion of their life that is carried on before the eyes of observers.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.