America Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

— Anne Tyler

In many respects, the United States is the freest country in the world. I don't just mean in terms of limits on state coercion,…

— Noam Chomsky

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

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

— Gil Scott-Heron

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

— Bell Hooks

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

— Miriam Margolyes

America is about class. To pretend that it isn't is very ignorant. No society has ever existed without some kind of a ruling class.

— Lewis H. Lapham

It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of…

— Peter Carey

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

— Laura Carmichael

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced,…

— Iris Chang

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

— Irving Babbitt