Social Classification Quotes

Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them.

I'm glad my son doesn't have to be labeled black or Samoan or mixed. He has instead been labeled as the best.

I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.

I don't even know whether I am a savarna or not, I am a Kayasth, so I am not Brahmin or Kshatriya or Vaishya or Shudra.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

People, like water, seek their own level.

I am from a very vague caste. I don't belong to any of the four. I am kayastha. They are well read, largely clerks so they get treated respectfully.

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

According to man's environment, society has made as many different types of men as there are varieties in zoology. The differences between a soldier, a workman, a statesman, a tradesman, a sailor, a poet, a pauper and a priest, are more difficult to seize, but quite considerable as the differences between a wolf, a lion, an ass, a crow, a sea-calf, a sheep, and so on.

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

Just as every animal is part of a kingdom, phylum, class, and order, every Dorchester resident has a parish, school, park, and neighborhood that they identify with.

But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet the university said I was one. Anybody who has met a real minority - in the economic sense, not the numerical sense - would understand how ridiculous it is to describe a young man who is already at the university, already well into his studies in Italian and English Renaissance literature, as a minority.

We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people.

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.

Race designation is a political designation.

Everyone is so into labeling themselves. I don't really put too much into that.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.