“Mamaw apparently understood what would take me another twenty years to learn: that social class in America isn’t just about money. And” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably… — James Gray Copy Share Image
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a… — David Lindsay-Abaire Copy Share Image
In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
“Exhaling in resignation, Vanessa drew her sword, offered a silent prayer for Starke’s safety, and uttered, “Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.” ” — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as… — Albion Fellows Bacon Copy Share Image
The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“When the landed gentry cut up a seed cake for tea it makes no difference to the cake which of them holds… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
“To recall the extent to which Hitchcock was marked by his petit bourgeois interpellation may not radically change the way we read… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
I admire American literature, both contemporary and classic - 'Moby-Dick' is just about the best book in the world - and I… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
“Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if… — Sayed Kashua Copy Share Image
“Youth enwrapped them; the song of Phaethon announced passion requited, love attained. But they were conscious of a love more mysterious than… — E.M. Forster 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
“I am confident that someday in the future The Rock, who was once a professional wrestler, will run for president of the… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Social class positioning influences all aspects of everyday interaction – how to talk, if to talk and when, whom to trust, whether… — Susan T. Fiske Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“To whom is an international corporation answerable? Often they do not employ workers. They outsource manufacturing to places far away. If wages… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The FHA had adopted a system of maps that rated neighborhoods according to their perceived stability. On the maps, green areas, rated… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Despite the countless acts of violence that the two had witnessed, and even participated in, over the years, they were still shocked… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
“The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern. — Josephine Herbst Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of… — Shirley M. Tilghman Copy Share Image
When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“Completely oblivious to either the angry mob around her or to her own nakedness, the woman walked right up to Roan and,… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will… — Edwin Hodge Copy Share Image
