Classes Quotes

Every time a superior person who has position invades the rights and liberties and the dignity of an inferior person, he degrades himself, he retards and debases his own manhood when he does it.

Our middle classes, who are comfortable and irresponsible at other people’s expense… are neither ashamed of that condition nor even conscious of it.

Class is a communist concept. It groups people in bundles, and sets them against one another.

She is nether fish nor fowl.

Through thick and thin, boom and bust, we tenaciously hold on to the belief that we are, fundamentally, a classless society. This self-image survives even though we have the most unequal distribution of wealth in the Western world. It survives even though 1 percent of us own 40 percent of the wealth. And even though […]

I was (in America) constantly being introduced to eminent person by people who were quite unmistakably superior to these notables, and most modestly unaware of it.

There once was an entomologist who found a bug he couldn’t classify – so he stepped on it.

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?

It’s amazing to me that only populists are ever accused of class warfare. Talk about losing a grip on reality. I’ll tell you what class warfare is: When the Gingrich Republicans mandate that the IRS spend more of its resources auditing working-class people who get the Earned Income Tax Credit than it does auditing millionaires […]

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.