Class Quotes

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Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all

Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.

Greed Capitalism Class Failed Systems

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

There is only one class of men, the privileged class

Class Mankind Privilege

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is bel

To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

Leszczynski Stanislaus

Class

At a round table there is no dispute about place.

At a round table there is no dispute about place.

Italian Proverb

Class

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant j

Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.

Class

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw

Class

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clingi

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

W. Somerset Maugham

Class

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American form

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

Christopher Hitchens

Funny Class Humour United States Joke

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

Dante Alighieri

Class

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.

Class

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than th

There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Leonard Sidney Woolf

Class

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Class

No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she be

No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.

Class

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Class

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Joseph Schumpeter

Class

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminate

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Class

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort o

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant.

Ernest Hemingway

Politics Communism Class Revolution Civil War Proletariat

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things

What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.

Class

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp ca

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

William Wycherley

Class

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how t

That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.

Neville Kenneth Wran

Class