“In eighteenth-century England, a fad swept the upper class. Several families felt their estate needed a hermit, and advertisements were placed in… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
In a true democracy everyone can be upper class and live in Connecticut. — Lisa Birnbach Copy Share Image
I would not say that George Bush doesn't care about people at all. I think that his loyalties are to the upper… — Stephanie Tubbs Jones Copy Share Image
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“ A Mother’s Advice Manners matter, regardless of your position in society. There is no excuse in this world to practice bad… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
And that is true in 85 percent of kids; it's kids who live in old, dilapidated, mostly urban housing. But that still… — Deirdre Imus Copy Share Image
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Certain kinds of things that the novel used to do, which was, "Oh, I'm living out here in West Nowhere, Nebraska and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Quiet as it's kept, there is a certain type of "upper class" white folks who don't use "colored help" at all. In… — Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor Copy Share Image
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very… — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
“Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Nothing more strongly marks the insufficiency of luxuries than the ease with which people grow accustomed to them; they are rather known… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Snake Street is an area I should avoid. Yet that night I was drawn there as surely as if I had an… — K. Ritz 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
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
“Eating organs, in 1943, could degrade one’s social standing. Americans preferred bland preparations of muscle meat partly because for as long as… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image