Class Quote by Thomas Bulfinch

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is…

— Michael Novak

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed,…

— George Orwell

A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives…

— Paul Feyerabend

“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A…

— Henry Steele Commager

Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests…

— Joseph Stalin

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue…

— Thomas Jefferson

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in…

— Julian Fellowes

In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of…

— Karl Marx

The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

This is a new land - a land of pretension because it is new; because classes and systems have not had that time to…

— Thomas D'Arcy McGee