Abandoned Quote by W. H. Auden

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

— Austin Mitchell

The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

— Oscar Wilde

Our country doesn't care as much about its lower classes as its richer class.

— Quinta Brunson

When people are educated, the distinction between classes disappears.

— Confucius

If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

— Thomas Jefferson

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least…

— William Gibson

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

— Arthur Young

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a…

— D. H. Lawrence

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down…

— Walter Lippmann

The fundamental class division in any society is not between rich and poor, or between farmers and city dwellers, but between tax payers and…

— David Boaz

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in…

— Bell Hooks