“It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly,… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
There has been a tendency only to deal with a certain social class when it comes to stories more than 100 years ago. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class?… — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out.” — Kevin Wilson Copy Share Image
Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Incidents of racial bias and implicit bias happen to African-Americans of every social class daily in America. White people seldom notice or… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The point of my work is to show that culture and education arent simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives… — Jonathan Jakubowicz Copy Share Image
“Kids from small families grow about an inch taller than those from large families. This is true regardless of income and social… — Arianne Cohen Copy Share Image
The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Liberty yes - but equality for all men? The end of all distinctions of social class? Such thinking smacked of anarchy, and… — Lynne Withey Copy Share Image
“The revolutionary movements of the left, which fought for a radical change of social conditions, had never directly touched this supreme political… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
“They were men linked more to one another, their schools, their own social class and their own concerns than they were linked… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
“Love is not coercion, and the state is only an agent of coercion. It has no other function and can work no… — Joel McDurmon Copy Share Image
“He whispered: ‘Is it this? Is this possible? I’ll put a marvel to you. That your cousin has always hoped. That from… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part… — J.F.C. Fuller Copy Share Image
“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“Soon after this meeting with the Morelands came the period of crisis leading up to the Abdication, one of those public events… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“There are two primary strains in the Conservative Party: grocers, and grandees. … By ‘grandees’ and ‘grocers’, I am not referring to… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“Jane hardly noticed them: for though she was theoretically an extreme democrat, no social class save her own had yet become a… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
