Lower Classes Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

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 peopleâ€”the employed, the somewhat privilegedâ€”are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower… — Howard Zinn
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo
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

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