I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock…

— Baron Ballantrae Bernard Fergusson

Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations…

— John Bartholomew Gough

Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence.

— Confucius

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,&…

— James Madison

All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about…

— Frank Zappa

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

— Victor Hugo

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

— Howard Zinn

The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting;…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment,…

— Steven Pinker

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow…

— Hannah More

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

— Anonymous

The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to…

— Damian Lewis

These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and…

— Howard Zinn