Ayn Rand Quotes

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

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, but they quickly evolved as well.

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.

In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

Davos is where billionaires tell millionairs what middle class people think.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

I do have strong feelings about the aristocracy: they serve a purpose, but it's a sort of insular strand of society.

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.