Quotes About Class

Humans aren't a protected class. (Acheron) Really? (Jaden) Yeah. Savitar shares your 'all humans are vermin' mind set. (Savitar)

So . . . do I have to go punch Stone in the face, or just burp in Richardson's class?" Caleb Do what? Nick "I'm trying to gauge how much detention I need to earn to match yours. Therefore I'm asking the severity of my grievance and who to assault for it." Caleb

It's odd, isn't it? The poor hate the rich for having a life they think is easy and for the fact that they think the rich only got the money by screwing them. The rich think the poor are all rustics lacking manners and grace who are unwilling to work as hard as they do to get the money. Both groups see each other as thieves out to steal everything they've earned.

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people--life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.

What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

The question had been complicated by the advocacy of some good men, who saw in the separation of the white and black races in the schools of the Nation a dangerous tendency toward the creation of class distinctions in our American life. It was the expression of a theory of equality right in itself, but which it would have been fatal at that moment to enforce.

As he got to know her better, he learned more of her childhood; and he came to realize that it was typical of that of most girls of her time and circumstance. She was educated upon the premise that she would be protected from the gross events that life might thrust in her way, and upon the premise that she had no other duty than to be a graceful and accomplished accessory to that protection, since she belonged to a social and economic class to which protection was an almost sacred obligation.

Some folks are born made to wave the flag;Ooh, they're red, white, and blue.And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"They point the cannon at you.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no senator's son.It ain't me, it ain't me—I ain't no fortunate one.

Poor alcoholics were bums; rich alcoholics were eccentric.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

The leisure class has been replaced by another and much larger class to which work has none of the older connotation of pain, fatigue, or other mental or physical discomfort. We have failed to observe the emergence of this New Class, as it may be simply called.

Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true.

You've got to make a stand, show a bit of class, all you've got to do is say no, but you know you're going to hate yourself in the morning.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.