Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ” — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
My parents came from lower-class British backgrounds. But they worked hard and, without formal education, made it where they are today. — Amy Jackson Copy Share Image
“How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale,… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among… — William Bligh Copy Share Image
The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must… — Baron Ballantrae Bernard Fergusson Copy Share Image
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
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
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
If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The main reason that violence correlates with low socioeconomic status today is that the elites and the middle class pursue justice with… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh… — Sharon Needles 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
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
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
“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there… — Howard Zinn 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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