Lower Class Quotes

41 quotes by 38 authors

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires. — Robert Louis Stevenson
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. — Zygmunt Bauman
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. — Matthew Arnold
In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that the… — Jonathan Gottschall
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a… — Eugene V. Debs
Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a… — Damian Lewis
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and… — James Madison
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. — George Bernard Shaw
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. — Oswald Spengler
In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower… — Matt Taibbi
Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better… — Eugene V. Debs
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and… — John Adams
Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast… — Steven Pinker
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The… — Henry Flynt
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. — Marvin Cohen
He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and… — Lincoln Kirstein
Blair Waldorf: Signs are for the religious, superstitious, and lower class. — Gossip Girl

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