Class Quote by Donald Barthelme

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

— Andrew Carnegie

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

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

— Oscar Wilde

At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and…

— H. L. Mencken

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

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

— Miriam Margolyes

And this is what has taken place. The delusion of the day is to enrich all classes at the expense of each other; it…

— Frederic Bastiat

Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging their own…

— Linda Colley

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their…

— Clive James

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

— Norman Podhoretz

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

— Joseph Stalin