Class Quotes

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In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands… — Mary McCarthy
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people from all backgrounds… — Eli Broad
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and… — Howard Schultz
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich,… — Kathleen Blanco
A working class hero is something to be. — John Lennon
Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class like a spy… — John Cheever
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of… — Mao Zedong
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. — Charles Dudley Warner
I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations. — Benjamin Disraeli
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. — George Bernard Shaw
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise. — David Riesman
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches. — Hesketh Pearson
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. — David Riesman
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores. — Friedrich Nietzsche
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own… — Samuel Johnson
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence… — Vladimir Lenin
When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa. — Aristotle

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