Class Quote by Bell Hooks

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

— Mao Zedong

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

— Mary Douglas

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the…

— Ed Miliband

“Moved by the need for control, for an unchallenged top tier, the power elite in American history has thrived by placating the vulnerable and…

— Nancy Isenberg

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among…

— F. Sionil Jose

“So it’s a mixed bag. Schools help prepare us for the modern workplace and perhaps for society at large. But in order to do…

— Kevin Simler

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

— Bill Ayers

The great leaders called the working class first whenever difficult and gigantic tasks arose for the revolution, and ushered in fresh heydays of the…

— Kim Jong-un

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called…

— Richard Hofstadter

“The history of all hitherto existing society8 is the history of class struggles.”

— Karl Marx

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

— Richard Cobden