Quotes About Class

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.

cuando decidió no emigrar y quedarse aquí, en Lima la Horrible, convencido de que podría organizar su vida de manera que, aunque por razones de trabajo alimenticio tuviera que pasar muchas horas del día sumido en el mundanal ruido de los peruanos de clase alta, viviría de verdad en ese enclave puro, bello, elevado, hecho de cosas sublimes, que él se fabricaría como alternativa a la coyunda cotidiana.

el dinero abre todas las puertas y que ni siquiera los prejuicios raciales se le resisten

We are at the cross-ways. If we stand on in the old happy-go-lucky way, the richer classes ever growing in wealth and in number, and ever declining in responsibility, the very poor remaining plunged or plunging even deeper into helpless, hopeless misery, then I think there is nothing before us but savage strife between class and class. —WINSTON CHURCHILL, SPEECH AT LEICESTER, 1909

If you're going to rip someone off, it might as well be Audrey Hepburn.

We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed.

El motivo de mi vergüenza y de la revolución es el mismo la diferencia de clase social

cuando entré en su habitación estaba llorando... No pertenecíamos a la misma clase social, pero al menos estabamos en la misma cama

A razão da minha vergonha e da revolução é a mesma: a diferença entre as classes sociais.

J'ai enfin compris pourquoi j'avais honte de m'asseoir dans la Cadillac de mon père! La raison de ma honte et de la révolution est la même: la différence de classe sociale. Mais j'y pense...on a une bonne à la maison!!

When I went back to her room she was crying. We were not in the same social class but at least we were in the same bed.

Salmon (2002), in her book E-tivities, provides examples of online icebreakers. Our favorite examples include a "Quiz of all the class members." Figure 6.4 An online icebreaker (adapted from Salmon, 2002) In this icebreaker, the teacher asks all the students to post some information about themselves.

the poor were duped into fighting to defend the privileges of the rich.

the dissemination of information alone does not set people free, and a new information technology creates a new ruling class.

Under Big Government, the ruling class get power and perks,...but others among the ruled class just get unruly.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

because a real lady is never fully dressed without some bling).

The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class:

The intellectuals have never been on the side of the workers. Sometimes they've let on to be, but only for purposes of betrayal.

The lively, gleaming little Jewess in a scarlet frock, who came into the room on the heels of Lady Anne, was announced as 'Miss Manasch', and addressed by the Walpole-Wilsons as 'Rosie'. Both

In such families as [Nidderdale's], when such results have been achieved, it is generally understood that matters shall be put right by an heiress. [....] Rank squanders money; trade makes it; -- and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour

People seem to think that if a man is a Member of Parliament he may do what he pleases. ... Being in Parliament used to be something when I was young, but it won't make a make a gentleman now-a-days. It seems to me that none but brewers, and tallow-chandlers, and lawyers go into Parliament now.

A poor gentleman is further removed from marriage than any other man.

Lady Fawn was to say the word, and on the following morning she was closeted with Lucy. "My dear," she began, "we all want you to do us a particular favour." As she said this, she held Lucy by the hand, and no one looking at them would have thought that Lucy was a governess and that Lady Fawn was her employer.