Matthew Arnold Quotes

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

The interesting thing about class warfare is that it's only class warfare if it's up, not down. If you talk about welfare cheats or something, that's not class warfare because it's down; you have to talk about rich people before it's class warfare.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

It's not an underclass anymore; it's an outer class.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing

It is easy to say that there are the rich and the poor, and so something should be done. But in history, there are always the rich and the poor. If the poor were not as poor, we would still call them the poor. I mean, whoever has less can be called the poor. You will always have the 10% that have less and the 10% that have the most.

If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That's already gone far enough. We shouldn't let it become more extreme.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Class still matters in Britain today.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?