Upper Classes Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

• Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going… — Huey Newton
• The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,… — George Bernard Shaw
• Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. — Germaine Greer
• Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among… — Toni Morrison
• Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. — Ayn Rand
• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want… — Caitlin Moran
• They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty. — Rhys Bowen
• 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
• I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.… — Oscar Wilde
• In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead… — Oscar Wilde
• Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their… — Ha-Joon Chang
• It is true, there was no public-school system, and the reason for it was very plain. The wealth of the upper classes enabled them to… — John Sergeant Wise
• Let Catholic writers take care when defending the cause of the proletariat and the poor not to use language calculated to inspire among the people… — Bible
• The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. — Charlotte Curtis
• Morality is only for the middle class, sweet. The lower class can't afford it, and the upper classes have entirely too much leisure time to… — Lisa Kleypas

Who Wrote These Upper Classes Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Upper Classes Quotes as follows:

• 2 Upper Classes Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Bible
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Charlotte Curtis
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Lisa Kleypas
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Huey Newton
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Germaine Greer
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Toni Morrison
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Ayn Rand
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Caitlin Moran
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Rhys Bowen
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Steven Pinker
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by Ha-Joon Chang
• 1 Upper Classes Quote by John Sergeant Wise