Quotes About Class

in part because those countries have switched their foundational ideologies from ones that glorify zero-sum class and national struggle to ones that glorify positive-sum market cooperation.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

Ist doch mal wieder typisch dafür, wie es auf der Welt zugeht: Die Leute, die Bücher lieben, können sie sich nicht leisten, während die Leute, die genügend Geld haben, Betriebswirtschaft studieren, damit sie noch mehr Geld einsacken und dafür sorgen können, dass die Buchleser auch in Zukunft machtlos bleiben. Dem armen Volk bleibt nur die öffentliche Bibliothek.

The poor man yields to the rich, the plebeian to the noble, the servant to the master, the unlearned to the learned, and yet every one inwardly cherishes some idea of his own superiority.

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.

The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus to prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory. What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect.

The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich;

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

I wouldnt want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldnt for the life of me do the job in real life.

Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.

am born a poet, of a low class without doubt yet a poet. This is my nature and vocation")

History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.

According to one Harvard study, more students attended America's elite universities from the top 1 per cent of income backgrounds than from the bottom 60 per cent.

It is the elites who are loosening their allegiances and workers who are reaching for national flags.

The advantages of being raised on the right side of the tracks are too implicit to be enumerated. It is the few who have escaped who grasp the full impotence of those they have left behind. After

The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.

No bourgeoisie, no democracy.

It is not just that people are staying physically put. They are also likelier to stay trapped in the same income group. America, in particular, which had traditionally shown the highest class mobility of any Western country, now has the lowest.

The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy.

Life becomes perfumed by character and discourse, not by dress or class.

No one can stop corruption in such a society, where the majority of the lower and upper class choose that as its mindset to do it.