As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did -… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population.” — Robert Steven Gottfried Copy Share Image
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably… — James Gray Copy Share Image
“Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.” — Fiston Mwanza Mujila Copy Share Image
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don't challenge today's stigma… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
“Paz smiled, and answered the way Hero would learn she always answered: rather than lying, or even dodging the question, she preferred… — Elaine Castillo Copy Share Image
The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
“In the summer of 1914, he had headed to France in the company of his only son, Alistair. They were driving at… — Giles Milton Copy Share Image
“Love is not coercion, and the state is only an agent of coercion. It has no other function and can work no… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“To whom is an international corporation answerable? Often they do not employ workers. They outsource manufacturing to places far away. If wages… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“The revolutionary movements of the left, which fought for a radical change of social conditions, had never directly touched this supreme political… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Mamaw apparently understood what would take me another twenty years to learn: that social class in America isn’t just about money. And” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“For two young women, bound together by blood and circumstance, but divided by religion, politics, and social class, the consequences were much… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
“I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out.” — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image