All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man. — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope… — Confucius Copy Share Image
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“The Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What I think I represent is a patriot who has no political baggage behind him that has dedicated his entire life to… — Ricardo Sanchez Copy Share Image
The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When I was just 13, we went from being middle class to lower middle class and finally lower class, as someone close… — Nana Patekar Copy Share Image
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed… — Guy Endore Copy Share Image
“Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were families who had trouble… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of communities within the Asian Pacific Islander umbrella that are predominantly more working-class or lower class, and those… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
“there's a bit of darkness inherent in this vice-free society (located on a replica of Earth) which simply banishes its lower class.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“He might have taken her inscrutability to mean there was no depth to her, but even their short acquaintance proved otherwise. Conversely,… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, you were supposed to marry and therefore didn't plan ahead. Planning ahead is one of the few… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down… — William Langland Copy Share Image
If we want to have a two-class society and an unemployed, welfare-crippled lower class that has no access to equality and educational… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
“What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
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