Class Quote by Gunter Grass

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

— Franz Grillparzer

“But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently no longer…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“How is it that we can punish women who are paid by politicians yet allow freedom and forgiveness to the politicians who pay them?…

— Valerie Baber

If your white privilege and class privilege protects you, then you have an obligation to use that privilege to take stands that work to…

— Ayelet Waldman

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction…

— Shulamith Firestone

We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state,…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly ever necessary…

— Joanna Russ

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary,…

— Joanna Russ

If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate…

— Bertrand Russell

Regardless of the gender of the highest wage earner, the balance of power in the relationship will suffer if the higher earner uses control…

— Marian Keyes

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

— Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”

— Abraham Lincoln