Class Quote by Clive James

The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this…

— Zoya Akhtar

Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

— Margaret Mead

Classless society is the dream of people with no class.

— Robert Zend

Those who are one with deprivation are deprived of deprivation.

— Laozi

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that, in the…

— Paulo Freire

“The already privileged receive privileged educations. The disadvantaged receive inferior educations, and then we blame them for their failure.”

— Janet Perry

“...the working classes—that motor of social transformation which Marx increasingly stipulated for the role of the proletariat; the dispossessed and alienated revolutionary vehicle of…

— J. P. Nettl

Class is classlessness.

— James Merrill

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined…

— F. Sionil Jose

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…

— Howard Zinn

We need to be clear that there is no such thing as giving up one's privilege to be 'outside' the system. ONE IS ALWAYS…

— Harry Brod

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin