Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes... — John Podesta Copy Share Image
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold 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
I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family. — James Caan 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
“Aping the lower class will only lead to fatherless children, unusable muscles, and the fear of tomorrow’s sobriety.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
I grew up poor, financially lower class. Worked in restaurants for 17 years while going to acting school and trying to become… — Asia Kate Dillon Copy Share Image
We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly… — Sloan Wilson Copy Share Image
I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of… — Paulo Freire 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
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
“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 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
“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
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones. — Arthur Schopenhauer 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 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
Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them. — George A. Romero 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
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
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 Rooster Coop was doing its work. Servants have to keep other servants from becoming innovators, experimenters or entrepreneurs. The coop is… — Aravind Adiga 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
“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
