Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its…

“I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and which is…

— Albert Camus

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere…

— Lech Walesa

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past,…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at the expense…

— Howard Zinn

Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time…

— Anonymous

In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew…

— Kaya Scodelario

There's a lot of musicians and songwriters who as soon as they ascend into being professional, they elect to lead the life of someone…

— CMAT

“the term “middle class” concealed a fact long true about this country, that, as Richard Hofstadter said: “It was . . . a middle-class…

— Howard Zinn

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably…

— Oscar Wilde

Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class.…

— Cesare Pavese

“In the United States, France, and most other countries, talk about the virtues of the national meritocratic model is seldom based on close examination…

— Thomas Piketty

“How stupid would that sound? It was high school, not the Hindu cast system, where the Untouchables have to avoid 'polluting' the upper classes.”

— Marni Bates

Among the upper classes, especially three or four generations ago, men and women had separate bedrooms. That's just the way it was.

— Gyles Brandreth

It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them…

— John Sergeant Wise

“Our civilization overflows with charity—which is simply willingness to hand back to labor as generous gracious alms a small part of the loot from…

— David Graham Phillips