Social Class Quotes

A Marxist could not open a newspaper without finding on every page confirming evidence for his interpretation of history; not only in the news, but also in its presentation — which revealed the class bias of the paper — and especially of course what the paper did not say.

Neither the rich nor the poor have great interest in government. The rich can afford their own security … in their gated communities and their own information networks. The poor are usually so pushed against the wall that they do not have time for the mechanics of the government. If you lose the middle class, you lose democratic government.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

In the U.K., working-class lives are depicted with the characters' humour, but in the U.S., people with difficulties are often depicted with pious or simply dreary lives.

I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than the faculty of Harvard University.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

The law courts of England are open to all men, like the doors of the Ritz Hotel.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But leave us still our old nobility.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

Let some people get rich first.

In a thriving economy, birth need not be destiny.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.

God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.

The history of all hither-to-existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freedom doth with degree dispense.

Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the rest of us, the American dream means one home - in a safe neighborhood, with good schools and good health care and a little money left over every month to go out for dinner and save for the future. Does that seem like too much to ask? John McCain thinks it is.