Lower Class Quotes

41 quotes by 38 authors

• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. — H. Rap Brown
• The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. — Margaret Cho
• No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the… — Thomas Malthus
• Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti
• My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of… — Hannah More
• These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower… — Howard Zinn
• Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing… — David Sedaris
• Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their… — Lewis Browne
• Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief… — Samuel Johnson
• We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes... — John Podesta
• All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering… — Frank Zappa
• The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding. — Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
• The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their… — Guy Endore
• Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to… — Aldous Huxley
• Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. — Howard Zinn
• There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and… — William Bligh
• Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to… — John Bartholomew Gough
• You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. — Arthur Laffer
• I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language… — Paulo Freire

Who Wrote These Lower Class Quotes

38 authors contributed a total of 41 Lower Class Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Lower Class Quotes by Howard Zinn
• 2 Lower Class Quotes by Matthew Arnold
• 2 Lower Class Quotes by Eugene V. Debs
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Hannah More
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Lewis Browne
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Frank Zappa
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Lower Class Quote by John Bartholomew Gough
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg
• 1 Lower Class Quote by H. Rap Brown
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Damian Lewis
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Margaret Cho
• 1 Lower Class Quote by James Madison
• 1 Lower Class Quote by David Sedaris
• 1 Lower Class Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Lower Class Quote by John Podesta
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Oswald Spengler
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Guy Endore
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Lower Class Quote by William Bligh
• 1 Lower Class Quote by Steven Pinker