The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Copy Share Image
“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ” — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family. — James Caan Copy Share Image
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat.” — Don Asher Copy Share Image
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold 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
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
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
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
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
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. — David Frost 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon… — Lewis Browne Copy Share Image
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to… — Ayana Mathis 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
“It is an extremely unfortunate fact, that there are those who see the morale of respect as something that is beneficial to… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“The ruling class is opposed to the lower class—that is, ‘closed’ to the outside—insofar as it ‘excludes, restricts, or makes admission conditional.’… — Franz Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“And I do, in fact, know how to read.” I look to Fain. “Are you familiar with The Realm Apothecarium?” “Y-yes, of… — Laurie Forest Copy Share Image
“The newly-born baby sucks, sleeps, and cries. It can do no more nor less. Is it not best for it to do… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“My confusion about the separation between the servant class and the upper middle class revealed a quintessentially American point of view. Status… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to every coin. If you want to experience real emotion, you get the gamut. If you experience a… — Johnny B. Truant Copy Share Image
“and there is dishonest men plenty to guide them to the devil, scoundrels that reckons to be the ‘people’s friends,’ and that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious. — Arthur Young Copy Share Image