“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 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
“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
“He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.” — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Success knows no age, gender, race nor social class. It is attainable to those in the relentless pursuit thereof. — Tsepiso Makhubedu Copy Share Image
“The archduke will see you now,” Bishop Riphaen said to von Pappenheim, interrupting his wishful thinking. “And he is most eager to… — Stephen A. Reger 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
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
The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book… — Matt de la Pena 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
Redistribution divided society into two social classes: the beneficiaries of transfer, who are calling for ever more; and the victims, who submit… — Hans F. Sennholz 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
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
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
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
“Always remain calm and unruffled, no matter what happens. If your coachman has a heart attack, your carriage crashes, your hat blows… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“The Portuguese word saudade has no direct English translation; applied to a range of human experience it conveys longing, nostalgia, homesickness, the… — Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr Copy Share Image
“Paz smiled, and answered the way Hero would learn she always answered: rather than lying, or even dodging the question, she preferred… — Elaine Castillo 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
“Americans, whether armed or not, were still looking everywhere but at social class when parsing the texture of their lives. It wasn’t… — Dan Baum 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
“Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“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
“Habermas (1971–1973) described ideology as motivated false consciousness of social classes. He outlined the potential resolution of this false consciousness by means… — Otto F. Kernberg Copy Share Image
“In his movie The Seventh Continent, Michael Haneke depicts a normal middle-class family who, for no apparent reason, one day quit their… — István Aranyosi 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
“Strong community is formed by powerful common experiences, as when people survive a flood or fight together in a battle. When they… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“The peasants and workers of Europe (and eventually the inhabitants of the whole world) paid a huge price so that the capitalists… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
“Allied to this question is the kindred question on which we so often hear an innocent British boast--the fact that our statesmen… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
“The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The… — M.R.C. Kasasian Copy Share Image
“The only class I'm interested in, is the class of character, determined not by blood or money, but by intent and behavior.” — Abhijit Naskar 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 higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman 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