Class Quote by Emma Weymouth

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the…

— Timothy Noah

“Unfortunately it is nowadays the fashion to pretend that the glass is penetrable. Of course everyone knows that class-prejudice exists, but at the same…

— George Orwell

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

— Raymond Aron

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.

— Igor Stravinsky

“Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about”

— Edward St Aubyn

All prejudices, whether of race, sect or sex, class pride and caste distinctions are the belittling inheritance and badge of snobs and prigs.

— Anna Julia Cooper

“The distinctive mark of snobs is not simple discrimination, it is an insistence on a flawless equation between social rank and human worth.”

— Alain de Botton

There is a forgotten black middle class in America - a group which is huge but underrepresented in the media and in art. It's…

— Ayana Mathis

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they…

— Anonymous

There aren't that many people walking about who are a total class stereotype.

— Ezra Koenig

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person.

— Michelle Dean

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are…

— Anonymous