Class System Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.
— Clive James
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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
— Gerald Brenan
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There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all…
— Sandra Bullock
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I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
— Robert De Niro
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Love is infectious. You know, God is infectious-God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators and s--. But His energy and His love and…
— Kanye West
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Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social…
— A J Muste
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There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.
— Debra Wilson
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People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.
— Prince Philip
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England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
— Kevin Ayers
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A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
— Andy Hargreaves
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I’m not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you’ve got something to say and the…
— Tom Hiddleston
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We have a two-tier class system when it comes to personality style. To devalue introversion is a waste of talent, energy and happiness.
— Susan Cain
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I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.
— Julian Fellowes
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I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them.…
— Helen Mirren
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Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different…
— Anne Perry
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And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The…
— Frantz Fanon
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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations,…
— Pete Townshend
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Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a…
— Seamus Heaney
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It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was…
— Wayne Kramer
Who Wrote These Class System Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Class System Quotes as follows: