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Quotes About Classless Society

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility.
~ Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.
~ Ernest Mandel
Well, you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're all fucking peasants As far as I can see
~ Steven Pressfield
John Lennon once wrote: Well, you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're all fucking peasants As far as I can see
~ Steven Pressfield
in a classless society, I am not sure that we would still use this notion of justice
~ Michel Foucault
But all this business about kings and lords, it's against basic human dignity. We're all born equal. It makes me sick.' 'Never heard you talk like this before, Frederick,' said Nobby. 'It's Sergeant Colon to you, Nobby.
~ Terry Pratchett
A mimetic crisis is when people become undifferentiated. There are no more social classes, there are no more social differences, and so forth.
~ Rene Girard
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
~ H. Rap Brown
The class war is over.
~ Tony Blair
The tolerance within the body of Islam was, and is, something without parallel in history; class and race and color ceasing altogether to be barriers.
~ Marmaduke Pickthall
There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.
~ Che Guevara
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
~ Christopher Hitchens
My own outlook and my values had been formed long ago. I did not believe in dividing people into rigid classes, and I did not believe in class struggle as a means to promote progress. I believed that to rebuild after so many years of war, China needed a peaceful enviroment and the unity of all sections of society, not perpetual revolution.
~ Nien Cheng
Mas não é disto que se trata! Não é por vossa causa, povo, que nos, abolimos a pena de morte, mas por nossa causa, deputados, que podemos ser ministros; nós não queremos que a máquina da guilhotina morda as altas classes. Por isso quebramo-la. Tanto melhor se isto serve para toda a gente, mas só em nos pensamos.
~ Victor Hugo
I honestly thought that Mission Hills, with its castellated palazzi, was normal and that other places were the aberration. I played with the tots of millionaires and convinced myself that America was a classless society, where all that mattered was ability and one's willingness to work.
~ Thomas Frank
Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
~ John Marshall Harlan
It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.
~ Henry Kissinger
After the experience both of Europe and Asia, anyone who speaks of non - class politics and of non - class socialism deserves to be simply put in a cage and exhibited alongside of the Australian kangaroo.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The fascist synthesis did not view Italy as a society divided by class but rather as a unified country in which all sectors of society could come together. The fascists replaced the old Marxist divide between unproductive capitalists and productive labor with the single category of the productive nation.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
~ John Lennon
what would happen, he posed, if one hundred thousand poor children and one hundred thousand rich children were all given the same food, clothing, education, care, and protection? Class lines would likely disappear.
~ Unknown
The real wonder of America's achievement, he professed, was that the "world's largest capitalist country" had "come closest to the ideal of prosperity for all in a classless society." These words strike at the heart of the matter. For Nixon, the United States was more than a land of plenty. Democratic in its collective soul, it had nearly achieved a kind of utopia.
~ Unknown
They learned from an early age that the classless society of Communism had a more rigid class system than the despised capitalist society, where a man could move from the lower to the upper class by his own effort.
~ Nien Cheng
Marx reproduced medieval and Reformation millenarian expectations in his utopia of a classless, stateless society.
~ Pankaj Mishra